Putting aside the definition of "rich", seems to me that 61% is a tidy majority. If you were a Congressperson wanting to maintain your seat would you seek to satisfy 61% with a certain viewpoint or those who write to you saying you are going to lose your seat unless you do as they say? A smart congressperson would ask *who* the 61% is and whether they can be mobilized politically- or have their minds changed, e.g. by making sure they understand that they will be one of the "rich" paying for it. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
