I heard an interview where Obama was defending this “redistributing wealth” idea. He said its just “neighborliness”. Obama and everyone needs to be reminded that it is only neighborliness if your neighbors voluntarily help you in some way. It is NOT neighborly for the government to forcibly take money from your neighbors, give you part of it and keep the rest for themselves.
Yea they tried this neighborliness when this country was founded. It was called the COMMON WEALTH of Pennsylvania. They intended to test such a system for 7 years. Everything they had was brought to a central place and the people in charge distributed to each his need.
It lasted all of 2 years before they finally gave up on the idea. They discovered that people were not willing to work for someone else, so they didn’t, then there wasn’t anything to distribute.