Matthew Neil: 'Welfare-Ezra Taft Benson (1968)'

Source:Matthew Neil- I'm guessing a cartoon about Ezra T. Benson.

"The is a compilation of parts of a speech that Ezra Taft Benson gave in 1968.  The video is from the John Birch Society.  I put it together for a class assignment to review the 2010 reform of Healthcare in America." 

From Matthew Neil

If you want to talk about the welfare state or redistribution of wealth or socialism, you should at least know what those terms mean.  

What Ezra Taft Benson was talking about when he was talking about redistribution of wealth, could be used to categorized anything that any government, in any jurisdiction, in any place in the world, does to serve its people. 

Everything from national defense, to law enforcement, to infrastructure, to the regulatory state, to public assistance, is some form of redistribution of wealth, because you're about taxing a, to serve b and vice-versa. 

So anyone who says they're not in favor of at least some form of wealth distribution, you should ask them a couple of questions: are they in favor of any kind and level of government at all and how would they fund their government. If their answer is yes to the first question, then they believe in at least some form of wealth redistribution, especially if they believe in taxation to fund their government.