I'm not rich and not a proponent of tax cuts for the rich, but there's one bit of insight that ideologically flavored reviews of tax reforms often seem to miss: almost any imaginable (income) tax cut will disproportionally favor the rich in absolute terms, even if proportionally they pay more. For example, even if the only change you make is to drop the rate on the very lowest tax bracket from 10% to 0%, the rich will benefit more than the very poorest because the rich will max out that tax bracket but the poor won't. Therefore, if someone proposes a tax cut and it turns out that it benefits the rich, that doesn't mean they have some nefarious scheme in mind, more likely they genuinely believe that lower taxes help the economy or that a smaller government works better. I'm a bit of a leftie myself, but this is one area where I think it'd be nice to have some mutual understanding between different ideologies.