Taxation and the middle class

[danbrotherston]

I could say a lot about this, but the thing that comes to mind is this: the property of a wealthy person or organization is, in practice, only property because it is defensible, specifically in our society by the existence of an organized government. So in fact a wealthy person actually uses the government more than a poor person, just by the simple act of owning, for example, multiple properties.

Indeed. Our concept of ownership is not an inherent natural law, it is a feature of our particular society. Other people, and indeed, other societies have had different concepts of ownership. And you can really see this when you start to examine the edge cases, e.g., parking spaces on the street in front of your house, which must be cleared of snow. (Also, in novels...the Dispossessed is particularly interesting).