They have created a perceived reality highly favourable to their interests and >> majority of the population view the world through that perceptual filter.

Yes for long as I know they are telling us that we shouldn't tax rich because they are those who will invest their wealth and make jobs for us and prosperity for the state. Also they kept telling us that we should borrow on the equity of our homes to by investment properties as their prices were raising like mad, put the tenant in and woala you'll have free money too just by watching time passing. People bought it. We all are going to be rich, hurray!
Now we know that there will not be free lunch for us / middle class, there is not enough lunches so they/super rich will have their meal.
So (no matter how fictional this scenario is) if government decide to tax them is it really that "sky will fall down" as they are saying? I do not see super rich investing in their countries in this era of globalisation and that's probably why we are not seeing more jobs in our respective countries...just opposite. Looks like they see us from developed world as consumers ONLY and how we are going to consume without jobs is not of their interest. They blame governments for unemployment. It's a circle.
I would like to know what would happen in this fictional situation where superrich are taxed so they can not invest in China/India/wherever. So governments with tax money should make more jobs (they are not that good in this)? Logic tells me that governments can only really invest that money in infrastructure and they will again give those works to corporations. Corporation (because they are capable of big projects) will pay us low wages again and keep the fat profits. For us people there is no win situation but at least we'll have infrastructure instead of cheap Asian stuff. My head is spinning...
How would this play in a short run? I am afraid financial system as we know it would collapse totally in this circumstances (this may be good in brother picture) but how this all will affect us little people? They keep scaring us with domino effect...and it is scary...

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind...Albert Einstein