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I think you can certainly say that some people benefit more than others from the "redistribution", even if you don't account for every single spending. There ar
by codingmess 7y ago
I think you can certainly say that some people benefit more than others from the "redistribution", even if you don't account for every single spending. There are certainly people who pay more than they receive.
In the case of family support, it is clear the non-parents receive less than parents. If there are no things (or fewer) things that non-parents benefit from that parents don't benefit from, then it is a net loss for non-parents. (Non-parents could for example benefit more from government sponsored care of the elderly, which might in part be taken care off by children of parents).
- rglullis 7y agoI don't want to keep repeating myself, but it seems you are either venting your frustration for feeling like you are not getting back what you put in (you probably aren't) or completely missing the point of what I was saying up-thread. So, let me try different words: of course this redistribution is uneven. The point of socio-political programs is never to be "fair", no matter how much they say it is. So stop worrying about it.
- codingmess 7y agoI don't understand what point you are trying to make.
- rglullis 7y agoIn which part of there is no point in trying to argue "fairness" in who-gets-what if "fairness" is not the point of the Welfare State am I losing you?
- codingmess 7y agoYour original claim was that parents don't really get "Elterngeld", because they pay for it themselves in taxes.
- rglullis 7y agoNo. My comment was just an ironic way of saying that there is nothing "given" by and from the Government. Whatever is "given" is actually taken from someone else and redistributed. I thought that was clear already.
- rglullis 7y agoto late to edit, but I meant "taken from everyone and redistributed"
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