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To: Lane3 who wrote (29295)	9/27/2006 4:26:00 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541355

"Redistributionist" works as a substitute. All governments redistribute by taxing incomes or property or imports or gas or whatever, then spend the money somewhere else, for better or worse. It's an ongoing process - to say it is related to Marxism is stretching the rubber band until it snaps. This is precisely my point about how arguments are formulated nowadays. Terms are muddied and mixed up, so that a single policy position to change a single tax can be used to tar someone as an advocate for a policy so drastic that it has never been advocated by a serious political party in the US, much less implemented. Without some rigor on the terminology it's just GIGO. So unless you believe that Democratic policies to use government spending to achieve economic and social goals equate to Marx's notion of undercutting and wiping out the capitalist class, what are you left with? A sloppy slur by the blog writer, in effect. I think we have worn this one out. Thanks for the debate.