“The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of income from richer to poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.”
—Bertrand de Jouvenel, The Ethics of Redistribution
Of course, for the left, this is a feature and not a bug.
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