> also, rich is a pretty lose term. pretty much any professional, business owner, high skill tradie, etc. is rich and can easily leave a country if the state becomes too onerous.  then tax them less and tax the poorer more. let's say you taxed the masses of minimum wage workers so heavily that they were forced to live 20 to a flat, and barely staved off starvation. what would they do about it? not a damn thing. so fuck them.
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