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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (247048)	3/10/2014 12:31:24 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543409

"redistribution is a natural consequence of income inequality. " Without reading it, it's both a consequence and a solution. Since Raygun, we've been redistributing it from us to them, and now we need policies to redistribute it from them to us. "That sets us up for class warfare" Yes, it does, doesn't it? 'There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.' Warren Buffett — "is there any surprise that the right fights against having their income taken to be "redistributed"? The ones who are never embarrassed convince the rest they have a fighting chance to change their status. “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” John Steinbeck

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (247048)	3/10/2014 1:06:17 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543409

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.