It's not a particularly subtle or difficult point. Every time the government touches anything having to do with money, it has a redistributive effect. For exam

It's not a particularly subtle or difficult point. Every time the government touches anything having to do with money, it has a redistributive effect. For example, if the government limits who has standing to sue under environmental statutes, and decreases enforcement, it redistributes wealth from the poor who were using a natural resource to any company that may have polluted or depleted it. The comment to which I was responding said explicitly that "capitalism has drastically increased quality of life" and that "[m]ost of the 20th century’s biggest failures were due to government intervention." Talking about the weaknesses of capitalism when it is unfettered by government intervention is clearly on-point. On the other hand, I don't see anyone saying redistribution should be "a primary goal," as you characterize it. Where are you seeing that?