It is important for you to know that the wealthiest one percent of the taxpayers pay more than a third of federal income taxes, and that the richest one-half of taxpayers pay 96 percent of the federal income taxes. That means that the least wealthy half of federal taxpayers pay almost nothing. In other words, their reduction would be 100 percent. You can hardly call that appeasing the greedy rich. Well, you could call it that.
Some people do.
But they are ill informed or lying. The rich would still be paying a greater percentage of their income to the government, and since their income is higher they would still be paying a even greater share of the government's expenses. But forced altruism is hostile to the American system. Forced altruism is much more like communism. Under a free system, people who can create wealth are encouraged to do so, not discouraged, and they should not have it taken from them by the government and given to others.