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What is wealth redistribution?

See, as long as I've been reading communist theory, I've never actually come across the idea of "redistributing the wealth." That's just something I've heard conservatives say. Kinda like a boogey-man. It's a faceless threat that only seems to exist in their minds.

So since it appears to be a conservative viewpoint, I have to wonder. Is "wealth redistribution" actually when you take take tax money from millions and millions of people and give it to a couple corporations who are entrusted to run the economy (despite the fact that they attacked the economy in the first place)?

From the bottom to the top, where it stays, as usual?

Update:

What Marx actually suggested was that workers mass together and take back their tools and factories, therefor allocating resources more fairly because they aren't 100% detached from the state of the world that they live in.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    since 2001 we have seen the largest redistribution of wealth in human history . from the middle class working man , up to the top few percent richest . the zionist agenda of greed of wall street , corporations and the bankers have sucked tens of trillions of dollars from our home equities and life savings . we are being turned into economic slaves . but like in ancient rome , the slaves will rise up against their oppressors . i can see it coming .

  • 8 years ago

    Communism is an extreme form of redistribution so illustrated the point.

    Have you seen the movie "Doctor Zhivago"? In that movie people's houses were taken over by The State and rooms in the house were allocated to families. Your personal labor became the property of The State and you were assigned a job.

    So in Soviet Union the short definition of communism was theft and slavery. Here of course we call it "redistribution". What is called Tyranny elsewhere, here we call law and order.

    Also, in communism, there are no corporations because they get taken over by The State. The former owners (stockholders, like people's 401k, etc) get ripped off and they lose everything.

    In a redistribution system, the only people who get to be fat cats are those with the power to redistribute. When the government gets to decide who has too much, it always ends up deciding everyone has too much, except of course for government.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Wealth distribution is the concept of taxing wealthy people at a higher rate than lower income earners, so that the lower earners can have a more affordable lifestyle. In practice, it fails, in that the wealthiest always find ways to minimize their taxes, such that they either pay a lot less, or even no tax at all.

  • 8 years ago

    It's what idiot conservatives call a progressive tax. Misleadingly call it. It's just smoke and mirrors designed to raise the ire of these cowards on the right.

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  • CharP
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Email Rep. Joe the Plumber, he knows. That prescient Patriot called Obama out on his evil plan during his first Campaign...but nobody listened. Sad.

  • 8 years ago

    what exactly do you think from each according to his ability to each according to his need means?

    and yes you could consider taking tax money and giving it to a few corporations wealth redistribution.

    But if you havent heard anyone but conservatives say it then you havent studied it much.

  • meg
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Taxing the wealthy which the LIM wants to do and giving it to the poor which the LIM is is called "wealth distribution." Really tough for a liberal to get a grasp of that I'm sure. Get your knee pads and go see the LIM and he will explain it to you.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Ponzi

  • 8 years ago

    It is what phony liberals want to do.

    Source(s): All of you even the "liberals" don't even understand socialism or communism! Basically it shows me that all americans are right wing extremist terrorists who bury there heads in the sand. North Korea is in the socialism phase which is the phase between capitalism and communism! Read Marxist theory!! You all even believe fox news lies that North Korea is a bad place with starvation when in REALITY it is a happy growing socialist nation with no guns no racism FREE food healthcare education and housing and ZERO unemployment and illiteracy. We need to join together with our North Korean brothers so we can have real communism! Watch the TRUTH!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ItHEYhxaw4
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