When the redistributionists are running the country, the economy shrinks and everyone gets hurt.
They have to make a choice between everyone being miserable because it is "fair" and allowing the producers to get ahead and grow the economy because a rising tide lifts all boats, even the battered row boats.
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I have long observed this mindset and simply can't relate to their thinking. Unfortunately it's proof of an abysmal educational system and, sorry to say, evidence of what psychologists call learned helplessness. They have been well and truly conditioned so that they cannot see past the next month's check.
Even worse, they have been conditioned to assume that anyone attempting to engage in commerce is somehow plotting to take away their precious dole benefits! A huge disconnect but one that has obviously been repeated ad infinitum by tax-hungry demogogues.