Having lived in communist and socialist countries - its an iron rule I have developed.
The bigger the government, the more redistributionist or activist it is, the more it puts in place systems that are not only inefficient, but creates vast opportunities for rent-seeking and capture by those connected to government. Those places with the largest governments are ALWAYS those that are most unequal.
It’s simple, really. Power equals money, and when you have power, mainly of choice in the marketplace, comcentrated in the hands of the few, you will have concentrations of wealth. It never fails to amaze me how the left is able to make the fact that the majority of the extremely wealthy support Democrats disappear. Not only that, but when that fact is acknowledged, it’s framed as some kind of altruistic “giving back.”