Kulaks were middle class people, not the upper class, let alone billionaire level oligarchs. Bad analogy.
“Kulaks were middle class people, not the upper class, let alone billionaire level oligarchs. Bad analogy.”
When you create the mechanism for taking the rights from one group, you have created the mechanism to take the rights from all people. For example, the Supreme Court allowed local governments to confiscate prime real-estate from ordinary middle class people and provide it to developers. This was done to improve the tax picture. Local police have used asset forfeiture laws to seize property from people who have never been accused of criminal acts, let alone convicted. And, who, exactly gets to decide who the “rich” are? I laughed out loud when a liberal woman was interviewed about Obamacare. She said, (approximately) “I wanted the rich to pay my medical bills. I had no idea that I was the rich person who would be tasked with paying everybody’s bill!” When politicians enact laws they have, probably, a clear idea of who will be the payer and who will be the beneficiary. But once the law is enacted, it takes on an evil life of its own.
If we don’t want to be the unintended victim of legislation, the safest thing is not to legislate it in the first place. The one invariable law is the one about unintended consequences. I am perfectly happy that “oligarchs” can do with their money whatever they please.