Does the left realize that "redistribution of wealth" means from the citizens to the govt.?

Question

The poor are never helped by higher taxes on everyone.

I agree that both parties have been wasteful. I don't think waste is justified in any case.

Answer 1

Does the left realize that a govt. powerful enough to give everybody what they want is also powerful enough to take everything?

Answer 2

Yes. I agree. Taxes go from the citizens to the government. Then, if the government is at all functional that money goes back to the citizens in the form of roads, hospitals, schools and other public, government funded organizations. The poor may not be helped by higher taxes on everyone, but they would be helped by higher taxes on everyone making over $350,000.00 per year.

Answer 3

Just think of it as trickle-down economics, with the government being the employer, and providing jobs. Should work the same way riiiight? riiight?? Well of course that would be assuming trickle-down economics actually worked.
Know why you don't think it works within the federal government? Because we see what money does because they report most of where it goes tot he publica. Corporations do not.

Funny how right-wingers only advocate jobs created by corporations, and anything else is considered "wealth redistribution".

Answer 4

They understand all to well. That is their dirty little secret. They want as many people poor and miserable, as to be able to create the largest class solely dependent on them, the govt and their supposed generosity.

They will tell the poor huddle masses that we, who work for a living, should support them. I am all about helping people with a hand up, that is the christian thing to do, but not a hand out.

I studied in England for a year. I had a British Economics professor give me a great quote. I made mention of the poor in America and he laughed.

He said and I quote, "America is the only place in the world were the poor drive to pick up their welfare checks."

Let me decided where and when I want my charity dollars to work, not the government.

Answer 5

I wonder if either party undertsands this. The left takes social programs and redistributes to the gov, and the right takes war, guns and butter to redistribute to the gov. Both redistribute through taxes "because we need to", etc.

So where are we in this argument?

Answer 6

The left is not about realizing, it's about feeling. The left, being socialist, is groupthink not individualism. They see us as part of a whole, the group being more important than the parts.

Anyone wanting to read a very long novel which illustrates why socialism does not work and why the individual must be everything if society is to survive and prosper, suggest

Answer 7

Is this a question, or a statement?

Yes, most people who advocate "redistribution of wealth" through taxation understand that it means that money goes to the government.

As for the poor never being helped by higher taxes on everyone - this isn't a debate site, but there are MANY MANY sites that debate that topic. I suggest visiting one.

Answer 8

The theory is that there will then be a re-redistribution, from teh government out to the poor. It hasn't worked that way yet, but here's hoping.

But, at least they are trying something. As opposed to the right wing idea that we shoudl let the rich keep getting richer and hope they'll share out of the goodness of their hearts. Because, you know, -that's- happened before.

Answer 9

Of course they do. They want the Govt to run all facets of their life. Never mind the fact that the govt has never done anything efficiently or well.

Answer 10

The last twenty years have seen a massive shift of wealth and income from the working class to the wealthy. This is undisputed by anyone. It is past time to correct this massive ripoff of working Americans.