Copied from the conservative subreddit, which I found very appropriate:

"I develop Real Estate for a living. Real Estate Developers, as a rule, do not personally pay a significant amount of tax money to the Federal Government. They do, however, pay a lot in Property Tax, Purchase and Sales Tax, Payroll Tax, Entitlement Fees, and others. Real Estate Development is locally-centric - meaning, it’s largely regulated, governed, and subsequently taxed on a city and state level, not a federal one."