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If their take-home pay is still increasing, I'm not sure there can be all that much objection to higher taxes.

In theory, yes. In practice, it's almost a branding issue. Knowing that 60% of your money is being taken away from you is generally a bigger takeaway for people than the total amount being bigger.

Maybe they’re bright enough to see that it’s not taken and wasted, but becomes the foundation of their incredibly successful state. Not everyone in every country is blinkered by the ideology of the greediest, in the hope of joining them.

I agree and disagree. In a state with a single worker, that single worker is almost guaranteed to be a sociopath.

They likely don't care about other people. You'd have to frame it for them differently.

Perhaps the glory of an immortal title? Maybe the admiration of the populace? Something like that.

God King Emperor of Eternity?

I can see an egomaniac going for that.

The spice must flow...

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