A rich person has an obligation to give maaser. Anything after that is his or her choice.
I’m tired of people saying “Turn to the rich people!” Guess who we HAVE been turning to? Most communities have the rich people they turn to when the schools need extra money or their shul needs a new roof etc etc etc.
How about the regular people start giving up some of their luxuries? If I were rich, I would look around at the standard of living of even the “poor” people (I’m not talking about the real poor, I’m talking about people who say they can’t pay their bills and still have cleaning help and large cell phone plans and go to the country every summer), and say “Why in the world should I be supporting them? They have excess…
Seriously, people need to get off their high horses on what rich people do with their own money and worry about how well they are spending their own.