We all know throwing money hand over fist into the black hole that is government is much better than letting people keep their own money.
Actually you don't know that; and yet, it's dead bang ******* on.
Here's a primmer:
1. Government
is not a black hole where money is sucked in never to come out. Only the abject retards (aka Righties) would think that. It's spent, assuredly, if government taxes the Dollars. Instead of me buying gum, for example, government buys a stamp and mails something. The money goes in, and in a better way if you print envelopes at your company, or a worse way if you're in the gum business. But in the economy (all of us) the difference is moot. The bux went in and moved up the value chain, same as you or I spending it.
2. It get's even better, thanks to REDISTRIBUTION!!! Yep, that word the abject retards hate, and also do not understand. Not move money from one to another. Redistribute it back through the economy, letting is work its magic on its way back UP!!! the value chain (something economists call: high monetary velocity). Great way to get the economy rosy for us all, using money (since we tax the wealthy) that's stagnated. Bear in mind, wealth is wealth, which we only tax if some goes to benefactors in the big pay day since rich Uncle Frank kicked the bucket. The folks who just got the windfall are taxed on that income (new money coming in). Ditto when Uncle Frank is still pumping blood. We only tax his new money coming in (income tax; not wealth tax). And Uncle Frank being so wealthy, spends but a tiny fraction of his income. It's VERY, VERY low monetary velocity.
3. Who wins when high incomes are redistributed? Workers, vis a vis, more jobs resulting from the money moving at the higher monetary velocity points. Maybe, if unemployment is low, and the job market forces some higher pay, the individual worker might see a tiny percentage more. But the big winners are the stockholders, business onwers and the rich -- whose incomes go from really rich to really, really richer. They scale to the success of their companies. Jane, in the mailroom does not. Most likely, she gets to meet a new coworker, since things are picking up in the mailroom, now that business is growing again.
So those we tax most, benefit even more, and the vortex starts sucking up, and not down, as it does when we tax less (have less redistirbution.)