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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
wealth redistribution is nothing more than legally organized theft by government. If it was YOUR wealth that was going to be systematically redistributed, i'm guessing you'd have a bit different outlook on the issue.
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Have you been looking at my bank statements again? Because otherwise, you know even less about what the government is doing with my wealth than you do about constitutional law.
My wealth is being redistributed, and it isn't just the government that's doing it. My school is pretty good at redistributing my money, as is my landlord, as is the car insurance company, and my grocery store, etc. The economy is a system of wealth redistribution. Sometimes there are situations in which the government might need to step in to keep things running smoothly- see host's post above mine.
Free-er markets tend towards radically uneven distributions of wealth. Radically uneven distributions of wealth tend towards a large group of poor and generally unhappy people who tend towards then being slaves to the people who own everything, either that or they tend to towards some sort of revolution- probably not of the libertarian sort.
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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
The only income distribution I'm concerned with is as much of my income as is not neccessary for the services I use, being distributed to me.
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The problem is that you live in a very interconnected economy. You benefit from the goverment spending your money in a lot of ways which aren't entirely obvious. One reason for economic growth is improvements in technology, and many improvements in technology come at the taxpayer's expense.
It doesn't really seem reasonable to me to be able to expect that you should only have to pay for the services you use, because you depend on people who use services that you don't use.