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Originally Posted by MarchHare
The money is going from one group of taxpayers (people without children younger than 6) to another (people with children younger than six). That's the very definition of wealth redistribution; the term doesn't strictly mean a transfer of money from the rich to the poor, only the transfer of money from one group of people to another.
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So all tax credits are forms of wealth redistribution... Riiight. Under this logic, I'm not sure how you could argue that a national daycare program doesn't achieve the same thing. Tax payer money funds this program, yet it only benefits those with children. So, as I don't have children, my tax dollars would have gone towards funding something that saves parents from having to pay for daycare, thereby saving them more money, which increases their wealth. See, works out the same way and yet I somehow doubt you'd call a national daycare program wealth redistribution.