[irishcoffee]

> taxes are the primary mechanism for converting money from rich people into services for everybody

Even California billionaires would rather leave the state than pay the 5% wealth tax. All to provide “services” that are generally superfluous or tied to corrupt kickbacks.

[etiennebausson]

You seems to mistake a corruption/grift problem for a wealth redistribution scheme issue.

They do not need to be linked, they generally aren't, in the EU at least.