Government: The Redistributionist Behemoth

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/government-the-redistributionist-behemoth/2012/01/05/gIQAFqqpfP_story.html

Liberals have a rendezvous with regret. Their largest achievement is today’s redistributionist government. But such government is inherently regressive: It tends to distribute power and money to the strong, including itself.

Government becomes big by having big ambitions for supplanting markets as society’s primary allocator of wealth and opportunity. Therefore it becomes a magnet for factions muscular enough, in money or numbers or both, to bend government to their advantage.

independentiam.com: "Interesting spin on conventional wisdom. Will is saying the larger and the more redistributionist a gov. becomes, the less benefit is realized to the promised groups i.e. the poor. The reason, he claims, is the politically connected and powerful always get the upside. The larger the gov., the more it attracts the political class to get theirs. Noodle that one..."