Redistribution and charity are very different things. Redistribution comes from the idea that societies have goals, and that those goals are better served by thinking about where to spend resources instead of leaving it to blind markets.<p>I can see that you think of the government as &#x27;them&#x27; instead of &#x27;us&#x27;, instead of something that we do as a society. We differ there.<p>Also, it worries me that you think (maybe I&#x27;m reading you wrong here) that is the spending of money, of all the things, what is the main problem with the war on Iraq.