I&#x27;m sympathetic to your ideas, but you&#x27;re really overstating your case here. Redistributing income is probably the primary activity of governments in rich countries today. Even in the US, transfer payments are about 14% of GDP: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;fred2&#x2F;graph&#x2F;?g=2Qi3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;fred2&#x2F;graph&#x2F;?g=2Qi3</a>