What connects all of these stories of tax flight, the wealth tax, the housing crisis that blames builders while blocking building, is a single recurring error: the belief that prosperity is something to redistribute rather than produce, and that the people doing the producing are the problem. The productive class, given sufficient provocation, will simply go somewhere else, and they are. The politicians left behind will have the satisfaction of their misguided ideals and a shrinking tax base to fund them. That's not a trade any serious person should be proud of.