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I feel like this reasoning trivializes the redistribution of wealth. Sure, taxing "maximum wealth" and redistributing it fairly sounds like a great idea. In actuality, it's obnoxiously difficult to take something away from someone who already has it (see: salaries, housing prices being sticky downwards).

That is hard, but its quite a bit harder to do what you suggest. Blocking trade in favor of "the population" leads to uncompetitive buissness that produce products that people dont want to buy. The evetybody biys that stuff on the black market, you end up with unproductive buissnesses that need state support.

Then when you final cut the throat of the dead animal you will get huge political problems on your hands. See for example coal-mines in england. Tracher had almost fight a civil war to get ride of that leech to society.

It trivializes the initiation of force.

No, because concentrated wealth increases corruption and reduces democracy, and hence prevents efficient collection of taxes (cf. US and EU these days, the poor pay taxes, the rich evade them).

Not necessarily. That wealth may accrue to people and in ways that are not easily taxable.