It's redistribution.
Indeed
Tell us, CW, how equal and fair enforcement of rules for all involved equals redistribution.
Both teams on the field in an NFL game have to play by the same rule book. Refs are not allowed to favor one team over another with their calls. Refs are incapable of giving points to a team that the team has not earned. Using your 'logic', a ref calling a pass interference penalty against a defense abusing the rules is somehow redistributionist.
But I can see how a Perry supporter hates such a statement, given how much state money Perry has doled out to the politically connected over the years via state funding. So you must feel obligated to try and turn Cain's statement on its ear.
That would depend on the context. If he’s talking about the imbalance when government gets involved in the private sector (over regulation, pay to play, etc) then he’s absolutely right. It hurts small businesses the most. In the sense that no one’s getting party favors it does even it out since we all start at the same place and can go as far as their ambition & passion takes them.
I’m a small farmer. Take NAIS (National Animal Identification System), the legislation would require every single small farmer to pay a fee for each an every animal we have. Large factory farms can get a single ID for large groups of animals. Even people who keep one or two chickens in their backyards will be affected. So in essence, this legislation, because of the burdens placed on small farmers, gives corporate farms an advantage. That’s not a level playing field.
I don’t want to take anything from them! Their operations also keep people employed and they probably started at the same place I’m at. I just want to be left alone to earn my living. Now logic would tell you the best way to handle this would be to exempt farms XYZ size and smaller. To the factory farms this legislation is helpful because it helps them track their very large operations. I buy meat birds every year and replace some of my layers as well. I breed my milk goats every year. That means each individual kid has to have it’s own ID (fee paid by me) even if I’m planning on selling it on Craigslist within a month.
Thus, context is important.
Cindie