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To: TimF who wrote (322575)	1/24/2007 6:58:24 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574180

re: 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) Thanks for agreeing with my original point. Now explain it to Ten.

To: TimF who wrote (322575)	1/24/2007 7:35:28 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574180

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. Indeed. Any change in tax policy is a "redistribution" in the common English sense of the word in that the change from the status quo "redistributes" some previous redistribution or some previous redistribution. But "redistributionist" as a government policy term of art doesn't use the status quo as its baseline. It uses what that taxpayer earns/accumulates as a baseline. Taxing one's earnings/accumulation and doling it out to others is redistributionist in the term-of-art sense of the word. If one substitutes the common usage of the word for the term-of-art usage, it obviates the whole notion of redistributionist policies, which is an important concept that shouldn't be lost. If you corrupt/water down the current term of art, you'd need to come up with another term of art, as you suggest. Much simpler to just respect the term-of-art in the first place. I would suggest "rejiggering" the redistribution as an alternative for changes to the status quo.