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As someone who isn't super-rich but is relatively wealthy I already do this.

Taxation in my country is almost entirely focused on redistribution of wealth (mostly to cronies, occasionally to proles) whilst the actually meaningful roles of government (as opposed to anarchy) like law and order, defence, border controls etc are neglected.

There's always some pet project. Lower in the thread someone is going on about subsidising female sanitary products, a complete boondoggle. Not only is it a trivial expense, the average man eats 10-20% more food so you could just net out the costs and just not move the money.

Even having a committee research that sort of thing is a waste, but it's just all over the place.




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