First off,
Conservatives were actually extremely upset over the Wall Street bailouts.
They were excoriated for putting the economy at risk by vetoing it at first.
That is simply a historical fact.
Secondly a “progressive” tax rate is not wealth “redistribution if it used for the “collective” good.
In other words if a progressive tax rate is used to build roads that benefit the wealthy the same as the poor then you are not taking money from the wealthy to give to the poor.
You are simply taking from each what they can to create the infrastructure needed for a functioning society.
But simply saying.
“Well Mr So and So has enough money to live on so I think I can better use his money by giving it to someone else” may be something that is arguably true but it is at it’s very core wealth redistribution.
You are taking from the rich and giving to the poor.
In Judaism it’s called stealing.
At least credit Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez for being honest about what they would like to do.
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