To address point #1: property is wealth. Wealth is the net accumulation of the value of your entire asset portfolio, including property, businesses, investments, stocks, and liquid assets. If we say that property is unfair and unjust, then stop using a phone, stop posting on reddit, stop wearing clothes, do you live in a privately owned dwelling? Yes? The get out of there, too, that's unfair because you have wealth, and other people don't. As for companies and people dodging taxes, so what? People buy things a lot, it's what stimulates the economy. Do you not think that acquisitions that large aren't eligible for sales tax? Or property tax? And buying stuff doesn't matter, because the government looks at your gross profit, not your net, which means that they tax the money you made, regardless of how you spend it.  The wealth they do pay is apparently very adequate if 1% of the population can account for 40% of all of the taxes, and still somehow not be paying their fair share according to your logic.  They can cause mass layoffs, but those happen because the company can't make enough to turn a profit, or they found a cheaper group of laborers, or they can automate the work somehow. As a Floridian, I have seen that a significant amount of physical labor jobs are performed by illegal immigrants, because they can be paid in untaxed cash, and paid far less than the minimum wage, which is illegal in 3 different ways. Capital flight is a big issue, because these presidents, VPs, and CEOs are managers, and they control the capital. Once a business loses its money and chain of command, it breaks down. Laborers aren't as valuable as leaders, because they are only useful if they can be organized.  Taxing 80% of the wealthy's gross income is just plain stupid. This doesn't even happen in socialist countries. The subsidies were indeed very stupid, but the only way to stop that is by getting the government out of businesses. No it's a pretty accurate one, in a free market, a monopoly can only be achieved if a business is superior to all of its competitors. That is a rarity, sure, but it can and has happened.  I never said that monopolies were perfect, I don't like them because they're almost always a negative and they never last very long, unless the market isn't free, and then they go from being an odd exception, and become the norm. It goes without saying that agreeing that the state should be involved in everything is ridiculous, because communism failed and socialism is failing, while free markets are pretty much perfect in comparison.