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That's just a higher level of taxation (i.e. mandatory), not the donations (i.e. voluntary) in exchange for naming rights or direct influence which parent is talking about.


In practice people that object to the taxes just move away.


They have the resources to do so, but How many low tax, high status countries are there to live in? How many people are free from all community, familial relationships that moving abroad had no social costs?


For Scandinavians doing e.g. banking the UK has previously been a good option.


Some do, but changing countries is not that easy.




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