@rbreich true, but once only to take them all, otherwise we would depend on people like Elon Musk becoming rich in the first place to finance the civil servants, and public investments...

That's to avoid such nonsense that in 1946-47 the French communist ministers, Maurice Thorez, Marcel Paul and Ambroise Croizat, created the "Régime général", financed by social contributions, not taxes, to invest in huge projects like building hospitals, and to socialize the wages of unemployed, medical staffs, parents, and retired people, all that before the added-value is split between profits and employed's wages.

That's what has been dismantled by all governments since then, up to the huge attack on retirements by Emmanuel Macron this month.