The combination of wage leveling through progressive income taxes and low property taxes ends up taxing the process of getting wealthy, not actual wealth. This kind of policy weakens motivation for productive work, limits upward mobility, and ironically fuels long-term wealth inequality.
Equality of income and wealth is a desirable goal for any society—but it matters deeply how we achieve it. Healthy equality comes when we empower people to be creative and productive, so that anyone who puts in a reasonable amount of effort can secure a decent life and a chance to grow.
This kind of organic, self-driven equality isn’t captured by metrics like the Gini coefficient. For example, if people can, through hard work, build a home, support a family, take vacations, and educate their children—then it really doesn’t matter if ten people in the country are billionaires. That kind of wealth inequality may actually inspire others to strive and achieve more.
But when inequality stems from artificial scarcity—like restricted housing construction that drives prices up and leaves half a million Slovenians without homes—or from limited access to professions due to state-protected monopolies, it becomes dangerous. It stifles growth, creates existential pressure, and erodes social stability.
The state should promote healthy equality—through free markets, open access to capital and innovation, fair competition, and ensuring basic goods are accessible to everyone. What we should avoid is the unhealthy kind of equality imposed through progressive taxes, bans, monopolies, nationalization, and other socialist-style policies that distort incentives and limit opportunity.