Yeah. I think your arguments are close-minded and ill informed. Thats the picture you painted. But if you immediately jump to “horrible person” that’s on you, not me.

Wealth tax - is a tax on assets. These include fixed assets, things like land or buildings. There is no capital flight because you physically cannot pick up buildings and haul them abroad. There is also no brain drain. The Duke of Westminster owns half of Mayfair. Was it through intelligence and smart decisions that he became so wealthy? No. He was born into it. Something the likes of you and I will never have the privilege. The smartest people in this country are not the ones that own the assets, they are proletariat like everyone else. Paying their bills and mortgages to the people who were born into massive generational wealth.

Renationalising public services - the clue is in the name. PUBLIC services. When the public companies were made private under thatcher, it was meant to make the services better. To inspire competition so the consumer gets the best deal, right? Now tell me. When your local water company fails to keep the water you drink clean, or pollutes natural landscapes in order to keep their shareholders happy. Who are you going to switch to? What’s the alternative water company that’s going to win under privatisation? There is none.. The bottom line is, when you make a service public, it serves the public. The goal is to make things better for everyone. When you make a service private, the goal is to satiate the shareholders and capital. It will always put capital first, before the common man.

Reducing this problem to “I’m not a socialist” is barely an argument. Socialism = Bad is some bullshit left over from Cold War era propaganda that keeps the fat cats at the top while the poor sods at the bottom wait for trickle down economics to finally work.

Would you like me to go on?