I think that the real reason many blue collar types are opposed to taxes for the rich is that they feel like it just facilitates welfare transfers to the poor and encourages even more mass immigration to the United States.
Those people are opposed firstly to a welfare state of the type that has rotted much of Europe.
When we were spending on things that were truly for everyone (National Park System, World War II, the Space Program) people generally didn’t have a problem with taxes. Now it is the case that most taxes are merely for handouts to other people. Hardly a unifying vision there.
