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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It also helps to bolster their belief that the wealthy are not deserving of their wealth and therefore, to should be mandatorily redistributed to the "poor" via taxes.[/quote]

Whereas, if you look at the growing disparity in income alone, it's clear the exact opposite is true: the poor and the middle-class are taxed disproportionate to the services the receive from the government (whether the "rich" in question is a defense executive, a financial industry executive, an executive from one of the heavily subsidized extractive industries, etc, etc...) Meanwhile, the family who are working poor, and who can barely manage to suck $500 per year off the government teat through tax credits is supposedly a beneficiary of "redistribution".

Even the relatively pathetic social safety net that exists in this country for the poorest of the poor is not "redistribution". It's an insurance policy the rich pay to ensure social stability. The effective tax-rate at the end of a pitchfork is 100%[/quote]

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