Money in our society was never distributed, it was either earned or given away. “redistributed” is a misnomer.
They want to take a system wherein money goes to where people earn it by convincing the money spending public to part with it, and go to a system wherein the government (i.e. a bunch of liberal statist busybodies) decides how much you get for any action or activity.
Of course you’re right, and of course the whole idea of stealing from productive people to fund corruption and sloth is outrageous.
I was just trying to come up with how “they” came up with the word “re-distribute”. But as you point out, based on the meanings of the words, “their” explanation doesn’t hold water.
Anyway, great tagline.
Distributed in this sense isn’t a past-tense transitive verb with “wealth” being the object of the verb. It is used as an adjective describing the current arrangement or division of wealth. You can say “They distributed the widgets, leading to how they are now distributed.” Think in terms of statistical distribution.
So to change how wealth is currently distributed, it must be re-distributed.