we can indeed tax the rich

Admittedly, America already does. Iirc the top 10% pay about 70% of American personal tax revenue.

Revenue from it has climbed

Yes, the tax isn't so bad that it is immediately revenue negative, that'd be comically bad. The concern is that wealthy folks pay taxes in a lot of ways beyond a single wealth tax and when they leave, even though the wealth tax revenue might still increase, the overall tax base decreases.

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Yes, there's an exit tax but after that I don't think you're correct. And if the difference in costs of that tax and say, a tax rate in the Caribbean...

Like, your businesses etc will still get taxed but and corporate taxes are different from taxing bilionaires etc and have a different set of implications.