You raise taxes and redistribute money from the wealthy to the less-wealthy. It is not, like, outlandish to hear the claim that this would improve the economy,

You raise taxes and redistribute money from the wealthy to the less-wealthy. It is not, like, outlandish to hear the claim that this would improve the economy, or at least be no worse for the economy than not doing it. I mean, it may not be true -- I don't tend to think that it's true -- but this should not be the first time that you've heard it. Obviously raising taxes and then setting the money raised on fire, or putting it in a bank vault, or shipping it overseas, would not help your economy. That's not what Korea is doing.