It could be argued that politicians like Blair and Cameron made a considerable salary sacrifice to be in politics. Politicians get it in the neck all the time but their pay is nothing like that in the private sector. I’m also not sure that Blair is corrupt. Irritating certainly but not corrupt.
In the lead up to the introduction of the Euro, wealthy Germans were making multiple crossings into Switzerland to convert Deutschmarks into Swiss Francs and thereby evade the taxman. I remember stories of cash being stashed in BMW hub caps, in fact anywhere to avoid being found in random...