The burdens of the rich

The right-wing newspapers have presented it as some sort of hoo-ha that Angelina Jolie might be put off buying a house in England if Labour won the General Election and imposed a Mansion Tax.  Allegedly, she was looking at some property out of the reach of 99% of us, so she can afford to splash £25m on a house but is spooked by having to pay some tax on it.  Oh well, just have to let Russians, Chinese and Arab tycoons expand their property portfolios.
Jolie, a big friend of William Hague (did the Leader of the House have a word?)  follows in the footsteps of Griff Rhys Jones (who will leave the country in the event of a mansion tax), Bill Oddie (who will vote for the Green Party in protest) and Mylene Klass (who compares taxing property worth more than £2m to taxing water).  Klass bemoans the impoverishment of little grannies - rapidly becoming a mythic demographic so I'd like to see Klass' empirical evidence.  The loaded luvvies don't realise the more they protest, the more popular such a tax becomes among the other 99%.