I finally understand the why redistribution of wealth is necessary!!!

So I'm a hard-line conservative. I firmly believe, based on evidence, that lowering taxes increases economic activity... yada yada yada...

But I finally figured out something.

For a free market to work properly, the government has to be the biggest baddest guy in the game.

Its like a football game. The referees have to be able to penalize the players, to keep the game fair.

And so what I'm saying is... the government shouldn't tax the richest people/corporations to
-increase tax revenue
-give the taxes to the poor
-improve the economy

No. None of those! But the government should tax these mega corporations simply to limit their power!

Corporations are like organs in a body. Like a person has a heart or liver. They perform a necessary job in a society. But what do you call it when you get something that grows unchecked in your body? Cancer!

So how do you prevent unchecked growth? A progressive tax. That gets exponentially more severe. So poor people and small business owners have few regulations and few taxes, so they are motivated to go into business and can compete with bigger corps.

So... the reason the right and left can't agree methinks, is that they are arguing the right solutions with the wrong reasons.

Lowering taxes does increase tax revenue. But not if you have corporations so powerful they own the government and can BAIL THEMSELVES OUT!