Socialists tax consumption, not capital

Everyone knows about the higher gas taxes in social 'democracies' but it's simply another manifestation of how socialism works in practice:  leaders scream 'soak the rich' but tax the proles.  Because unlike the rich and their money, the proles can't flee.  By contrast, the more egalitarian and democratic a society is, the more taxes track the wants and needs of ordinary people.  Which is why the US hardly taxes fuel at all.  Ordinary people value the freedom that having one's own car gives them.  The elites, well they want to control where people go and discourage individual mobility.  So they tax the hell out of it.