Political Redistribution of Wealth

Steve Russell
11 min readMar 23, 2021
Graphic by Public Domain Vectors

I get weary — and we should all get weary — of accusations that this or that politician wants to “tax and spend” or that it’s wrong for the government to manipulate the distribution of wealth.

Everything government does involves taxing and spending and those two acts, perforce…

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)