I think because it wasn't 'in his face'.

I tried really hard to keep it neutral. I have a pretty quick switch and can get damn snarky, damn fast. He has pissed me off way more than once, but what I figured out was that getting mad wasn't doing me any good. So I decided to try to explain that it isn't that I want to punish rich people for being rich or anything like that. He said that he had never really thought about it the way I explained it and that he was going to have to ponder what I had said. Previously he would just dismiss everything I said out of hand.