Synchronicity and the redistribution of wealth

"Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally un-related. In order to be synchronous, the events must be related to one another conceptually, and the chance that they would occur together by random chance must be very small." - Wikipedia

I experienced synchronicity the other night, driving to my hotel.

• I saw a bumper sticker on an SUV that said "Who is John Galt?" It's been a long time since I've seen one... perhaps 20 years. It is the refrain from the book "Atlas Shrugged" by the Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand. In it, John Galt is a mysterious man who creates a new society of like-minded people in the wilderness, people who will not suffer being exploited for their wealth or intelligence or ambition merely to allow lesser people to survive. He encourages various captains of industry to abandon the society which is bleeding them dry with taxes and efforts to nationalize their property and their inventions. (I thought the book was dull. There's an incredibly long speech by John Galt, where the philosophy of Objectivism is laid out in excruciating detail. It could have been condensed into a four-page pamphlet, in my opinion. I agree with many of her points, but I thought Ayn was very long-winded about it.)
  
• When I got to my hotel room, the front-page story on the weekend newspaper was that a Democrat state representative in the Illinois legislature wants to double the state income tax on "the rich" (people with incomes greater than $250,000/year), from 3 to 6 percent. This is surprising because Illinois is one of only seven states that has a "flat" income tax, where ALL taxpayers pay the same percentage. Singling out a special group of taxpayers is inherently unfair under the current flat tax structure. Six percent doesn't sound like much, but there are 107,000 people (mostly in the Chicago area) who might think so. They would bear the burden of this new tax on being successful, which would fund education, state-sponsored construction projects and "tax relief" for people who make LESS than $250,000/year. The proposal has been dubbed "The Robin Hood Referendum." The representative who proposed it, Mike Smith, says that "I'm not sure who would campaign against this [proposal] other than those 107,000 [people]." My question is, what's to stop those 107,000 people from simply picking up and leaving Illinois? Nothing. And it would be within their rights to do so, when the undeserving leeches latch onto them and try to bleed them in the name of "equality."
  
• I was listening to a fun song, "Nugget," by Cake, which is basically a song addressing those very leeches. (Naughty, repetitive use of the F-word, plus goofy/inappropriate images of dead dictators and other silly but relevant people and objects. One of my degrees is in political science so I think it's amusing.)
  

It was an interesting feeling, all of those events converging in the same few moments of time.