If you aren't earning what you're entitled to then the incentive to continue producing music is lost.
Totally disagree, to a certain extent of course you want to be paid well, but if you are in music, or other forms of art for the money then you should leave and become an investment banker.
Also, as far as higher taxes go, I'm a bit torn. On the one hand, I think it's ridiculous that some people who make tons of money do everything they can to avoid paying as much as they can, finding every loophole in our tax laws. On the other hand, I have an uncle who has a salary at the highend of six figures, and he actually works extremely hard, at the office from about 5am to 7pm on average, sometimes working much longer, and he gets a lot taken out for taxes, and is a great guy. Great house, nice car, lives comfortably, but puts in the work. I think he works 10x harder than taylor swift, who complains about having her music downloaded for free but still sold a million+ albums or whatever it was?
My problem is with the "entitled" people, who think just because they have acquired this money, think now that they are on some sort of new level where regular people are below them. First world problems, if you will. If taylor swift suddenly stopped having an income, right now for the rest of her life, I'm quite positive she could live much more comfortably than 50% of the population; actually i just checked and her income last year was 55 million, so 90% of the population, probably more. Like, at this point, you should be happy people are listening to your music. STOP BEING SO FUCKING GREEDY it makes me sick. You're an artist, you're here to inspire people. That should be your goal.