Talk:Redistribution of wealth/Archive 1

Capitalism
Why is capitalism not included in this definition? -unsigned

It used to be included (Oct. 26, 2008) and now it is again. Capitalism does redistribute wealth, but through dissimilar/non-governmental means when compared to the other two economic systems in that list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.14.121.127 (talk) 12:50, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Merge the page
This page used to be a redirect to the income redistribution page. I'm also suspicious as to why "spread the wealth" redistributes here. That phrase has been used by republicans against Obama. YVNP (talk) 04:19, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Bias
This page seems to have a clear ideological bias and equates wealth distribution to 'theft'. It asserts that the best way for wealth to be redistributed is through charitable donations and capitalist structures - where are the studies and articles to support this unreferenced assertion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.72.72.53 (talk) 18:59, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

The article is rubbish. It also talks about Republicans versus Democrats, completely US-centric, whereas in fact both US parties have relatively similar views, i.e. against mass wealth redistribution (regardless of campaign slogans). The US might have a widening gap between rich and poor, but really "wealth redistribution" is usually seen as more an issue in countries or time periods of vast majority poor, with a few rich. However, when a later paragraph asserts that foreign companies "are now" coming into Communist China to develop its capitalist markets, this is about 15-20 years out of date. Today there are capitalist CHINESE enterprises operating all through so called "Communist China". OK, so China has pulled many people out of poverty since the Communist takeover and the transition to capitalist/Communism, but I don't see the relevance of the text here to redistribution of wealth at all, since it doesn't discuss lowering of poverty or rise in middle class and rich people (i.e. redistribution) in China through either land reform and markets, but simply notes their transition to a capitalist economic system, without discussing the actual distribution of wealth. The text here was clearly copied and/or written by someone with no knowledge of the topic beyond Joe the Plumber's superficial rhetoric, and needs lots of work, or better yet, just re-link it to substantive economics articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.21.58.96 (talk) 14:56, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

I agree wholly with the previous argument; even being a US citizen I was immediately confused by the intended relevancy of stating the current Democrat and Republican position on the idea. I plan to revise this article to focus on the idea itself as well as historical perceptions and revisions of this concept as have existed globally. 71.190.43.252 (talk) 21:24, 1 December 2008 (UTC)