I don’t agree he’s trying to create a socialist state. None of these taxes and fees are going to impact the rich to any serious degree. The wealthy will be fine. The ones hurt are people in the middle class who are trying to build wealth. Our meager savings and investments will be ate up by government.
The wealthy will be fine PERSONALLY speaking, but their role as a huge customer of services provided by poorer people will be hurt.
This is something that progressives just cannot grok, neither can they grasp it. In hating the “obscene luxury” of the rich, they fail to notice that this luxury seldom just sits still in the economy. I wish I were rich, but if I have to be poor then let my best customers be rich.