The reasons for taxation..
For some reason I have never fully understood there are many fine university buildings, art venues and parks funded by the charitable donations of billionaires, but not many Joe and Jo Bloggs Memorial by-passes or submarines.
It’s almost as if the very wealthy want to spend their charity donations on ego pumping vanity projects and not on things like roads, rubbish collection or the Armed Forces.
Since the average donation from the ultra rich is a small percentage of the tax they have avoided they can get a lot of vanity for their buck. Oh, and awards and positions of power and influence as well.
But if we abolished all taxation and just relied on people paying in what they think they ought, which is what the rich do, the country would collapse almost overnight.
Ordinary tax payers understand that, but at a certain level of wealth people start to think they have escaped the need for social responsibility. That they did it all themselves and they should no longer have to pay into the society that enabled them to prosper.
Unless they can put their name on a concert hall, that is.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.