...and a huge bureaucracy so that we can be certain that the social services are decent (since we won&#x27;t be able to gauge efficiency or utility by supply and demand market pricing)...then huge organized labor and pensioning systems to attract and vest people into a system...<p>Since we already have these last two, then taxing the wealthy seems like a good way to go, except that you need to expand the concept of wealthy to actually make enough money; all the while the &quot;wealthy&quot; will find ways to protect their wealth.<p>It might be easier to simply print more money and give it to government agencies, but then other nations will probably value your currency less due to inflationary bloat.