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Nope, consider "pure" democracy in Widget Town. Widget Town has one main employer, the Widget Company, owned and run by Mr. Wiseguy which sold fine Widgets all over the land. Mr. Wiseguy earns $400K/year and pays his employees an average of $40K/year. Widget Town had an income tax that taxed all income at 5% and all property at $1/$1K of assessed value but a ballot measure (democracy at its finest?) was passed changing the Widget Town income tax to 50% on income over $40K and the first $100K of assessed property value was exempt from taxation. It was cheered by most as power to the (little?) people and shifted the Widget Town tax burden almost exclusively to "the rich" which, in Widget Town, was just Mr. Wiseguy. The only problem was that Mr. Wiseguy then relocated, taking his Widget business with him, to Nearby Town. ;)
 
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Nope, consider "pure" democracy in Widget Town. Widget Town has one main employer, the Widget Company, owned and run by Mr. Wiseguy which sold fine Widgets all over the land. Mr. Wiseguy earns $400K/year and pays his employees an average of $40K/year. Widget Town had an income tax that taxed all income at 5% and all property at $1/$1K of assessed value but a ballot measure (democracy at its finest?) was passed changing the Widget Town income tax to 50% on income over $40K and the first $100K of assessed property value was exempt from taxation. It was cheered by most as power to the (little?) people and shifted the Widget Town tax burden almost exclusively to "the rich" which, in Widget Town, was just Mr. Wiseguy. The only problem was that Mr. Wiseguy then relocated, taking his Widget business with him, to Nearby Town. ;)


Mr. Wiseguy can't relocate if he is in jail or required to run his business under house arrest.
 
Mr. Wiseguy can't relocate if he is in jail or required to run his business under house arrest.

That is true, but can "the supreme ruler" manage to run a successful Widget business and fund their government services from only that source? What happens all too often is that "the supreme ruler" milks the company dry and forgoes funding many of the government services for their personal gain allowing outside competition to take over the Widget business and the infrastructure to suffer irreparable damage.
 
Did anyone say that democracies need no rule of law?

It boils down to allowing the majority to violate inalienable rights.
 
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