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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (90286)10/16/2008 10:32:58 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (3) of 541648
 
We're debating uses of tax dollars. Joe's gonna take a walk.

My point is that Joe doesn't have a business without an economy that supports it (which to some rather large extent depends on government activity), without the infrastructure that makes it possible (roads, schools, health care, etc.)

Somewhere in there the Joe's of the world have to support the general common wealth for non altruistic reasons. For their own, very narrowly conceived, self interest.

Are there tradeoffs? No doubt. But at bottom, if Joe wants to make a living, he has to contribute to the general common wealth.

If the term "redistribution" bothers you, look at all of those activities above. Each is moving moving money from Joe's pocket to other pockets. But the outcome, to some extent, is to keep Joe with a pocket. And something in it.
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