Redistribution Of Wealth In The United States

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Redistribution of wealth is such a shocking misnomer it should be struck from language entirely.(2015) Wealth has never been distributed in the first place.Taxation a relatively small amount which winds up in social safety net programs is not wealth being redistributed.The wealth is still very much concentrated right where it is.Taxation is the price of civilization which includes helping people who made no choice to be born who find themselves in need and who might otherwise nullify the right of a nation to claim being a civilized modern nation by living in refrigerator boxes and fending for themselves in any way they can.(2015) Giving them food stamps and public assistance is in no way giving them wealth.It is part of the price people of

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