That's Marxism and in every Marxist economy I am aware of the politburo and apparatchicks live like oligarchs. It's the progressivism (Marxism) in our political economy that is building government into a huge corrupt money and power machine, just like you find in all union headquarters and other Communist political leadership structures. Small government and free open and transparent markets is how you get rid of oligarchs and their all powerful big government political puppets. Concentrating command and control is what breeds corruption.
What's your impression of the following five principles?
http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/2012/01/06/time-to-junk-income-taxes/
"Five ancient principles that have survived the test of time and are, therefore, profoundly conservative, should guide us.
"The first is the moral principle of progressive taxation — that the greater the gain you manage to attain, whether through hard work or luck, the greater your duty to pay back the society that made your riches possible so that it will endure. This concept is 2,500 years old, coming to us along with its civil twin, democracy, from ancient Athens.
"The second is horizontal equity. Each person, or business, with the same ability to pay should pay the same tax. We must not tolerate a system in which one family or company pays far more than another with the same income, thanks to all the fine print in the tax code.
"Simplicity, transparency and ease of payment should be the last three of the five guiding principles, as Adam Smith taught more than two centuries ago."
Oligarchs have survived Marxism and the Progressive movement in this country and thrived like never before. They have demonstrated their contempt for "free open and transparent markets" regardless of the size of government for hundreds of years. If their political influence is not taxed into extinction, they constitute an existential threat to humanity.