itfitzme
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What source did you use to make your statement? Income redistribution is a key element of Socialism and
Communism. How have those types of government done? Too many settle for the jobs they are in and then complain. People who do well have a strong work ethic, willing to sacrifice, get a good education and / or learn every thing they can about the business they want to start or join. Those who do not do this have no one to blame but themselves.
I was middle class and was able to double my salary within 9 years.
Stop the complaining and better your self. It is not the job of government to do it for you.
All economies and governments redistribute wealth and resources. That's the whole point of them. Resource and wealth redistribution isn't unique to Communism or Socialism. The difference is in how it is accomplished. In the USSR, the how was an attempt at centralized planning. Trying to centralize planning for a population in the hundreds of millions just doesn't seem like a good idea, from the outset.
The U.S. military is the largest socialist jobs program in the history of the world. It does a considerable amount of centralized planning. And some of the failings has been the brunt of complaints and jokes by many a person in the military. Sometimes, it doesn't go very well, even for the US military. The military has found considerable utility in taking advantage of the free market system and outsourcing. It has it's successes and failures.
Still, the US military is is funded by taxes, a redistribution of wealth. Government, by it's very nature redistributes income. When it comes to the military, by it's very nature, it redistributes resources.
Military wages are set by pay-grade, not by any free market mechanism. Wages and salaries are higher than the equivalent position in the free market, especially when you consider the benefits. Housing is either provided or subsidized. Employment is not "at will" as in the free market but a fixed term contract with review that nearly guarantees the employee cannot be terminated for anything but exceptional cause. Prices at the PX are capped. In fact, prices are often on a sliding scale, lower for low income enlisted personnel then for higher income commissioned officers.
It is what it is, for whatever reasons.