Very silly, I know, but it does irritate me that democrats would concentrate on re-distributing wealth and nothing else.
It's not that the Democrats want to redistribute wealth that bothers me, it's whose wealth they want to redistribute.
It always seems that when liberals find a problem that needs to be solved, and needs money to solve it, their consciences can be assuaged only by making other people pay the needed money.
At university, I remember arguing with earnest young women who saw all this poverty and need for education and the like in the ghettos or in appalachia -- and who proposed raising taxes to pay for solving the problems. My response, which unhinged them, was well, if you see a problem, go solve it. If teachers are needed in the ghetto, get your credential and go teach in the ghetto. Or contribute your own money to charities that work with the poor in just the way you think it should be done. Oh, no. There were always dozens of reason why they couldn't do that, but the problem was so important that the government should fix it by putting its hands into other people's pockets to pay someone to work in the ghetto. It reminds me of the notion of substitutes in the civil war draft: only instead of the individual paying a substitute, they want the government to extract the cost of the substitute from everyone (not them) and then to pay the substitute. Bah!