[pfannkuchen]

> normalising as a portion of wealth.

I don't follow this framing. You are saying we should look at taxes as "how much money does the government allow someone to have"?

This seems to assume a government has a right to take an arbitrary amount of money from its citizens. Do you believe this?

[3np]

Where in the world would that not be the case?

[pfannkuchen]

If you mean practically speaking, everywhere? At some point production incentives are eliminated, leading to quality of life reduction and inevitably revolt or external invasion. Additionally, as government controls a more significant percentage of buying decisions, we shift closer along the spectrum to a command economy which at some point is computationally infeasible, though perhaps ChatGPT will make command economies work finally (mostly kidding).