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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 02 December 2013 06:37:29PM 0 points [-]

However, it's different than taxes in one very important way: it's redistributing excess wealth after my own goals have been achieved, not before.

Is that still a clinching argument if redistribution can be justified consequentialistically?