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> Luckily the rich are a minority and this is a majority rule system

Hmm, is that why the Build Back Better Act got killed in part by House Democrats wanting a SALT cap repeal? "The rich" you're thinking of excludes a large percentage of high earners who live in high CoL areas but are not wealthy. I'll remind you 20% of California earns more than $162k [1]. That's a lot considering the win margin of the general election and most CA state propositions. Enough to tip elections.

> And not dying if a small business owner gets sick has a long run boost to the economy

"Small business owner dying because they got sick without insurance" just doesn't happen. This is a strawman.

> You'll still have your chance lol

Average house price in Frankfurt is 7200 euro/sqm [2]. Tell me again how you can pay for a 200sqm house (=1.4M euro) when European software engineers make less than half of what American engineers make and get taxed more? A new grad at Uber in Europe makes 87k EUR [3]. A new grad in the US at any big name tech company makes more in the range of $180-200k. So your pay is more than double and you get taxed less, meaning you build wealth in the range of 3x as quickly.

[1]: https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/california-househ... [2]: https://www.ft.com/content/3e4f8c40-1dca-447e-a3c4-69911cfc1... [3]: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...