#wealthredistribution

[theaveragedream]

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[hurricanehenry]

They just keep producing more excuses for their #WealthReDistribution https://www.instagram.com/p/B7pNkGngIr_/?igshid=xuztgszzc3pi

[ianbreen]

It's Poverty Alleviation, not "wealth redistribution"

We need to be careful with the way that we frame political dialogues and what words we use: When people talk about “wealth redistribution”, they’re not talking about stealing or “redistributing” money from (hardworking) rich people to the (lazy) poor, they’re talking about making sure their tax dollars aren’t spent on anyone else but themselves. It’s about greed, and not the greed of the poor, the greed of the rich. They indignantly say that not a single dollar of their taxes can be spent how they don’t want it to be spent, and that means it can’t be spent on anything that doesn’t directly benefit them.

But that’s not how societies or governments work. We have a representative democracy, you’re not always going to get your way. And government collects money from the individual in order to provide services for the commons and the common good. Everybody loses some money to the masses, but makes it up in an elevation of society’s quality of life.

The rich believe that they can keep their money from the government and use it to buy themselves an island away from the problems of the world that produced the wealth they enjoy, and this is factoring into the budget negotiations. Cutting spending isn’t about balancing the budget, it’s about making government’s spending only fund programs for the wealthy ( i.e. tax cuts). In fact, the wealthy man’s greatest conservative, Reagan, didn’t balance the budget at all, but he did cut taxes for the rich.