>>So, let's look again at your statement that "redistribution/welfare plans strangling the "basic tasks" you correctly define as messy"
>>The two numbers above, 91% descending to 37%, describe a staggering redistribution of wealth to those who need it least.

Truth is that the wealthy US dynasties don't pay 37% or 91% tax. The 0.00235% of households paying 91% ought to be the clue.

IMHO the biggest redistribution in the US would be the effective sale of US jobs to foreign competitors to increase returns to the 1% owner class. The latest figures suggest that the deficit with China alone, translates to over 3 million jobs lost in the US since 2001. So China was handed the opportunity to dominate world manufacturing on a plate, millions of US workers were out of work and there's a huge annual deficit- all to deliver unnatural profits to 1%ers who as Warren Buffet lamented, pay less tax than the secretary.

Donald Trump likes to go on about enemies of the state, so maybe he should start with the salesmen who flogged off fellow citizens' jobs and aided foreign adversaries, to line their own pockets. Maybe the far left should also consider whether they should be trying quite so hard to tear down the first POTUS in decades trying to undo the harm, or to pay homage to/accept alms from the greedies who did these terrible things, and now (predictably) oppose efforts to undo their harm because Stormy, impeachment, Russia.