&gt; [...] everyone is receiving a fixed quantity in government services.<p>I generally agree with your argument, but there&#x27;s an argument to be made that rich people benefit more from eg protection of property by the police, because they do have more property.<p>(Not all that convincing to me, but it&#x27;s a decent argument.)<p>A really nice tax is a tax on the unimproved value of land---it&#x27;s fully born by the owner of the land and (for economic reasons) can not be passed on to the renter.  Henry George had a point.