"The "rich" who for some reason you seem to hate are already paying more tax than they have ever done, push them too far and they leave - who then pays "their whack" or do you just let services, benefits, pensions and welfare go to the wall."

Presumably, if we're patient and wait long enough, their wealth will "trickle down" and benefit everyone (hurrah!). Any estimates of how long we'll have to wait before this starts happening, Teribus? A couple of million years perhaps?