>I agree with you that today we have redistribution of wealth policies -- to the wealthy from everyone else. That's the current reality, not some outdated notion of a liberal nanny state.
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>You are out of your mind. Who do you think is paying for all the welfare, 99 weeks of unemployment benefits, etc. etc. The people who are receiving these handouts?

Yes. From the money they haven't earned because they are thoroughly underpaid. The distribution of wealth looked quite differently until the late seventies... and that seems to have been the period of most economic growth. Then it was redistributed upwards.

It's so easy to be generous with the money you took from others.

>I don't know about you, but no poor person ever hired me to write custom software.

True. So why are you so defending the system which reduces your customer base? Fewer and fewer people can afford you.