Of course they can afford it. But since when do they pay taxes? Its the top 2-50% of people paying the most taxes. The 1% don't pay taxes, that's what attorneys are for!
Socialism was funded into being by the greediest people on earth like the Rockefeller's and Morgan's of American and the House of Rothschild and other banking houses in Europe. When are you people going to understand that three is no socialism without a bunch of the same scum at the top you are trying to avoid in the first place!!!! Just because they may not own the land doesn't mean that the government officials don't get greedy and try to reap all the same rewards as typical land owners. The 3 largest socialist empires we have seen have been the Nazi's ( national socialist), The Maoist Chinese empire, and the USSR. Read the gulag archipelago. Tens of millions died in Russian concentration camps before Hitler. They killed 50-100 million of there own citizens, the great little Marxists they were!
And the European Union is a perfect ecample of modern socialism at its finest. Its collapsing because its supported by a fiat currency through the ECB. Greece tanked because Goldman Sachs made a bunch of bad derivatives with there pensions, and then came to collect on the massive loans they had given them. Goldman Sachs is one of the sleaziest companies of all time. Filled with Zionist scum.