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Redistribution and the Deadly Sins

Redistribution and the Deadly Sins

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Christopher Cook
Nov 09, 2023
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The ideology of the left is, at its core, about redistribution—taking wealth, money, and resources by force from some and giving them to others. We can sum up the history quickly:

After 2,000 years of gradual growth, the philosophical ideas of classical liberalism blossomed in the Enlightenment era, and reached the zenith of their political expression in…

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