>Does anyone care to argue that the second could somehow be preferable to the first? Mind that this's not my own PoV but from what I've been taught in school i

>Does anyone care to argue that the second could somehow be preferable to the first? Mind that this's not my own PoV but from what I've been taught in school in the USSR and read in the modern liberal media the general idea is that it depends. If you just take 5K from every man, woman and child then it's not good. However if this is just the average number and you take more from the "rich" and less from the "poor" then the communists argue that you reduced the wealth disparity and the value of this could easily be over 6K per person.