With high rates of tax avoidance by Pakistan's elite and the rich, tax payers from countries supporting Pakistan's development initiatives have been subsiding Pakistan's elite. Pakistan's ruling elite are unwilling and loathe to tax themselves, and exploit the country's geopolitical vulnerabilities, extracting rent for many strategic alliances. Powerful and influential western governments and their leaders parrot the Pakistan-is-too-important-to-fail mantra, which suits Pakistan's elite perfectly, as the economy is constantly bailed out. Both Pakistan's elite and western governments are equally to blame for the absence of more equitable taxation efforts in Pakistan.