Why does the media force the narrative that people really want higher taxes, why do they think this will work?

They thought by promoting Obama care that they could engineer opinion and steer people to what they wanted to be a populous idea, it didn't work. So now they are trying again with raising taxes and they think it will work, sorry it will fail again. The press has lost the prestige of molding public opinion long ago, when they went from reporting facts to reporting opinions.