Introducing the scene is a whispered harp-celesta fragment of the film's Prelude, spiraling into a close-up of Judy inthebeautyparlor as she is being made up to look like Madeline.
My guess is, however, that their demagoguery is working inthe sense that the average taxi-cab or beauty-parlor operator probably thinks that raising the top tax rates affect only millionaires and billionaires.