To be fair, he’s talking about tax policy. Taxes are indeed a mechanism, for better or worse, through which wealth can be transferred from one segment of the population to another. If you cut taxes on the wealthy and keep them constant for the middle class, the middle class ends up shouldering a larger percentage of the tax burden to maintain government services. The wealthy get to keep a larger percentage of their incomes to spend—or not—as they please, while continuing to benefit from those same government services (the military, highways, etc.). If you do it the other way—raise taxes on the wealthy and cut them for the middle class—the wealth transfer works the other way. That said, I’m a proponent of tax fairness—I like the flat tax, no loopholes, no deductions—and I don’t think the tax system should be used to redress social grievances or incite class-war, no matter which party’s driving tax policy.
Please tell me you are joking.