Taxes use to be at 91% here in the USA. Now it is at 35% for the highest. Or at least that is what I have read. 35% or 45% is that much or that big of a deal if you make 10 million a year or more. They earned it under a system that allowed them to earn it so that is the price they have to pay for being so fortuante(had to take that argument eest as it was soo good)