Second Article in this week's Economist. The Economist is "Centre-Left" According to MBFC.
(anarchaos.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
The solution to lobbying and citizens united isn’t tax changes - it’s transparency in political funding and the electorate giving a fuck. And, pretty obviously, if most of a governments tax income came from a few hundred individuals they’d have enormous power, even if you did fix the lobbying/citizens united problem- they could just leave and crash your income overnight