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This was intended as a serious question in good faith so the downvotes and lack of responses are unfortunate. To elaborate: Hillary Clinton's 2016 platform inc
by endtime 8y ago
This was intended as a serious question in good faith so the downvotes and lack of responses are unfortunate.
To elaborate: Hillary Clinton's 2016 platform included increasing the inheritance tax, and she's about as centrist as Democrats get these days. The inheritance tax is redistributive. Did any Democrats come out against her position? https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2016/09/23/hillary-clintons-65-estate-tax-or-donald-trumps-repeal/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2016/09/23/hillary-c...
- zjaffee 8y agoRedistribution of wealth usually refers to seizing private assets directly, rather than simply creating more taxes. Democrats almost universally support private ownership of the means of production, where the opposite would be either workers ownership of companies held in trust or the nationalization of companies and industries.
- endtime 8y ago> Redistribution of wealth usually refers to seizing private assets directly, rather than simply creating more taxes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redistribution_of_income_and_wealth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redistribution_of_income_and_w... says: "Redistribution of income and redistribution of wealth are respectively the transfer of income and of wealth (including physical property) from some individuals to others by means of a social mechanism such as taxation, charity, welfare, public services, land reform, monetary policies, confiscation, divorce or tort law."