Thomas Sowell: The big confusion among the redistributionists is between opportunity and outcomes.
One of the examples I used in a recent column was, you know, when I was a kid, I briefly tried to play basketball, and I mean, I was lucky to hit the backboard, never mind the basket. But I had just as much opportunity to play basketball as Michael Jordan had.
You cannot measure opportunity by outcomes, and that's what the redistributionists insist on doing.