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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (247048)3/10/2014 1:06:17 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 543419
 
The phrase "redistribution" is an unfortunate legacy of the right's political rewording of things like estate taxes become "death" taxes. Redistribution is a number of things including the safety net (a way we provide support for all of us), public policy (mortgage interest and property taxes deductible (should be capped), EITC, and so on. It's not so much "redistribution" as it is public policy which makes life better for all of us. If the poor are starving in the streets, that's a bad environment for the wealthy (let alone the small issue of moral obligations for fellow human beings); if previously controlled diseases are not running rampant, that's ditto.

And so on.

Another way to look at "redistribution" is the upward version of it. Our taxes dollars which go to create and repair highways subsidize the profits of companies that use them. And, then, of course, one gets into the many, many ways government dollars support large businesses. Upward redistribution.
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