[rsoto2]

lol the state(aka society's strong arm) will always have an immense say in your life even if you are so oblivious to it. Government exists to redistribute money, might as well distribute it to the poor and do it universally.

This study didn't say, we gave 1200 to people and then dictated their lives like a dictator.

[isaacremuant]

> Government exists to redistribute money

Citation needed. Authoritarians always love to go dismiss anyone who doesn't just take anything they're given.

[unethical_ban]

Citation: All modern society and the last 1000 years.

>Governments don't exist to redistribute money

Citation needed.

[foobarchu]

>Government exists to redistribute money

Citation needed

It works both ways.

[isaacremuant]

Read a constitution and tell me where it states that the goal is to redisteibut wealth. I've read significant parts of the constitution of my country and it absolutely does not state that.

The goal of the government is not stated as such. It's not "the social contract".

But hey, your phrase sounded confident so you have that going for you.

[unethical_ban]

"The authority to collect taxes and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States."

[isaacremuant]

Which doesn't mean it exists to redistribute wealth. See other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639059

[ryoshoe]

Taxes are a form of wealth redistribution, and all governments require a revenue stream

[isaacremuant]

That a government levies taxes to sustain its operations, such as the monopoly of violence, does not mean that "it exists to redistribute wealth".

The wording was very intentional and very wrong. Specially because it's uses as an argument.