While income/wealth redistribution might sound fantastic, in reality it just wouldn't work. First of all, wealthy people would be furious that their money is being taken and given to people that don't necessarily need or deserve it (although there definitely are plenty that do). Second, what would the regulation of the redistributed money? There's plenty of welfare abusers out there, and throwing money at them won't help.
well obviously details matter. i know there's been a lot in the news about people scamming the government for opiods or whatever. of course certain things could be improved. but we've had many cases of redistribution working just fine. look at how much lower senior poverty is than when social security was instituted for example. or the gi bill. infrastructure even. i mean people tend not to think of that as "redistribution" but in essence that was subsidization of different industries and the suburbs by the feds. in some cases that might have been bad or had unintended consequences sure. but we're not really talking hypotheticals. without serious redistribution the mid 20th century just wouldn't have happened. they called it shared prosperity for a reason.
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