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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1480180)	8/23/2024 11:41:18 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570492

Wharfie, Is that your new phrase for taxes? It's not a new phrase, and it doesn't refer to taxes in general. (God knows how many times I've been told, "bUt bUt mUh rOaDs, mUh pOlIcE, mUh fIrEfIgHtErS ...") "Forced charity" refers to policies that directly redistribute wealth. It's one thing for the public, starting with the "richest," to pay for public services and infrastructure. But it's yet another thing when, for example, UBI is funded directly by additional taxes on the "rich." Time and time again, public policy has proven to be a very weak method for wealth redistribution. It creates moral hazards and bigger, more wasteful government. And the rich just keep getting richer. So yeah, liberals do believe that a certain class of people don't even have the right to exist, because their very existence means that we have to redistribute wealth even harder. Tenchusatsu