Re:Evidence from leaked account data on how elites use offsh...
by throwaway3699 on Saturday May 08, 2021 @11:20PM
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The primary purpose of taxes is to build bombs and train soldiers to defend the realm. Everything else is secondary. Imo the government does too much, but that's a whole other debate.
Yes it is. Also of government, more generally (well, power, of which wealth is a subset.) Before the modern era, this was pretty consistently upward redistribution, aka concentration.