[ieatcandlewax]

This is something that happens right now and is currently known as "embezzlement". This will generally get you in trouble right now, so I can conceive of a world where it would get you in trouble.

I can imagine that some people would get away with it—but that's also kind of how the world works, some people will always game the system to their benefit like they do in every political system.

I think we're pretty far from devising a perfect system that is ungameable, so I don't see the point in devising scenarios where they are gamed.

A better metric imo for a tax system is seeing how much of the tax burden rests with people who work for wages vs people who own capital and comparing that to their proportion of the total wealth.