>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 That's the current reality, not some outdated notion of a liberal nanny state.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?
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>I don't know about you, but no poor person ever hired me to write custom software.

You like that one, don't you? ;-)

Same here, although I have in fact been hired by a couple of poor companies.

In answer to your question, taxpayers are paying for "handouts," of course. As we always have. Do you dispute the point I actually made, that redistribution is currently from the middle class to the upper class? The numbers are indisputable.