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To: Road Walker who wrote (322574)	1/23/2007 8:01:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574122

If you prefer your definition you lose the normal meaning of the term. "Redistributionist policies" are not polices that somehow in some indirect way result in some people getting more, and/or some people getting less, than they previously had. If that is how you define it the term is almost meaningless, as all government programs work that way to an extent (if for no other reason than the fact that they are paid for by tax revenue), and normal economic transactions also change the distribution of resources and/or money. Redistribution would in practical terms equal little more than existing in a society. Defining it your way makes it useless, and leaves a need for a word to define specific policy to take from A and give to B.