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To: JohnM who wrote (10509)	2/1/2006 2:18:24 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 541774

The term "redistributionist" is another interesting term here. Well, your use of the term certainly is. To you it seems to mean anything that alters the current distribution. Or perhaps anything that alters your optimal distribution. "Redistributionist" means taking from the haves and giving to the have nots in the form of a welfare state. It doesn't mean tinkering with the tax structure. We could fiddle with the progressivity of the tax structure until the cows come home and not be redistributionist until and unless we take some people's income and give it to other people, directly or indirectly. As long as we use the tax money for general purposes, we merely have a progressive tax system, not a redistributionist one. It's very hard to say just how moving from the present system to a single payer system would "redistribute" income and wealth. It might just be a wash. But that's way too complex. Even with your definition, I think that's pretty simple. It takes from those who now have health insurance and gives to those who don't. Nothing complicated about that.

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