[alacombe]

Budgets can't be planned at all when there is no more "{m,b,t}illionaires" to steal from either.

[africanboy]

I honestly don't get the "stealing" part, can you explain what you mean?

[alacombe]

Taxation is theft, coerced by the threat of violence.

[phaemon]

There are a small (but rather vocal) number of people in Western societies who believe that the amazing benefits and privileges they enjoy are in fact something they're entitled to due to their natural wonderfulness. They are therefore horrified to discover, when they grow older (if not up) that these things have to be paid for.

Some are so traumatised by this realisation that they reject the concept entirely and decide that their pampered lives are the natural state of the world. This obviously means that anyone insisting on payment is an extortionist.

Hence the above response.