For my sake, will you forget the politics of the phrase “redistribution of wealth” for a few minutes?

I am getting tired of hearing the phrase “redistribution of wealth“ repeated over and over and over and over…

Please understand me, I do not want my taxes to go up. When I was a kid growing up I always heard the news reporters talking about how taxes are “squeezing” the middle class. At 12 years old I didn’t know what that meant. At 37, I now painfully know what they meant.

The problem I have with the phrase “redistribution of wealth“ is that my tax dollars have always been used in “redistribution of wealth.” I pay my taxes and the dollars I give my local, state and federal government are redistributed to where my government sees fit. My tax dollars help pay government employees. Money I earn is taken away from me in the form of taxes and put into government  employees pay checks. Isn’t that “redistribution of wealth?” My tax dollars go to help build bridges in Wyoming. I have never been to Wyoming, but my hard earned money is going there to help pay for salaries, raw materials, engineers and things I don’t even know about to build bridges. Isn’t that “redistribution of wealth?”

So what gives? Why all of a sudden do we keep hearing about “redistribution of wealth?” I guess “higher taxes” just  doesn’t scare people enough anymore so some genius decided to pit “Rich America” against “Poor America” in some sort of marketing nightmare. Funny thing about this marketing campaign, if “Rich America” has its marketers backed by its dollars, where is the marketing dollars for “Poor America?”