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Category: Redistribution

The government uses the euphemism “spending” for a process that simply amounts to resource redistribution. The federal government steals the resources of private property owners through taxation or the dilution of the money supply and redistributes those resources based on the preferences of elected officials and bureaucrats.

The Real Tax Burden

Posted on March 4, 2020March 6, 2021 by Jim Berger in Economics, Redistribution

Socialists have one big weapon they want to use to correct many of the economic ills that they see. They want to use taxes as a way to redistribute money from billionaires to those they see as needier. If you see significant inequities in the distribution of income, that seems like a reasonable approach to … Continue reading The Real Tax Burden →

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