Redistribution of Wealth

          There is a lot of moaning in the fringe media about redistribution of wealth—about the government taking our money in taxes to give away to slackers. These tax scolds seem to want you to think our country pays for defending itself by selling candy apples on street corners. Of course, like most of what they say, that's ridiculous. 

          The Department of Defense is run on money that is redistributed from us taxpayers, not by selling ship wax and striped paint to surplus stores. States are subsidized with huge amounts of money redistributed from us taxpayers. Food and fuel production (including lucrative corporations): same deal. We honor our fallen heroes in national cemeteries supported by taxes. We take care of our veterans with tax money. We should do a better job of that. We collect taxes and prevent tax evasion with tax money (more fodder for the fringe feeders). Thus the principle of redistribution of wealth through taxation is the legitimate way we do the things we do as a country.

           So it is easy to recognize when someone is jerking our chain by complaining about redistribution of wealth. Only the certifiable social orangutans in our economy believe that is the problem. Still, it is such an ingrained part of the litany against government that it is guilty by association with various programs and policies at issue throughout our society.

           Around here, we're not fooled by this “rope-a-dope” tactic. What the government does makes us think, for ourselves, instead of succumbing to the “Liar Choir.”