What is the responsibility of government in the distribution of wealth?
95024
None. Zero. Zip. Zilch.
367184
Nothing is Free.  Someone has to pay for it.  Usually, it is money taken from one person and given to another person, who has a greater need , or the government thinks has greater merit.
828396
Every sector of the society must be represented in the government.  Politicians must not only address the problems of the rich and the middle class.
134099
No, wealth is earned or inherited, not distributed. As long as there are people who feel entitled and not willing to earn what they want, they will continue to commit burglary and theft. There are wealthy criminals also.
1100328
Government is a system of social control under which the right to make laws, and the right to enforce them, is vested in a particular group in society. \n\nGovernments are distinguished by whether power is held by one man, a few, or a majority. Today, it is common to distinguish between types of government on the basis of institutional organization and the degree of control exercised over the society.\n\nOrganizationally, governments may be classified into parliamentary or presidential systems, depending on the relationship between executive and legislature. Government may also be classified according to the distribution of power at different levels. \n\nThe basic law determining the form of government is called the constitution and may be written, as in the United States, or largely unwritten, as in Great Britain. Modern governments perform many functions besides the traditional ones of providing internal and external security, order, and justice; most are involved in providing welfare services, regulating the economy, and establishing educational systems. The extreme case of governmental regulation of every aspect of people's lives is totalitarianism.
209845
Money recieved by the Federal government through taxation.
1105882
The most diffilcult part when handing out money is weather the person that you are giving it to is going to put it to good use. Everyone in life should make it for themselves. The wealthy did. Most of them did not take handouts and they achieved their wealth by hard work. My hand out to people is that I give them jobs. If they plan to make good use of the money and invest in their future instead of blowing it all, then they too will have wealth in the near future. Although we have money to spare, it is not our job in life to work for others who can't see that they can't make it themselves.
541824
Most of the working-class will starve to death before the wealthy will see any problem.\n\nAnd the governments won't see the problem, since the wealthy are in parliament/congress/senate/presidency.
55867
how about the relationship between the government and the poor people
177349
Knowledge and guidance. The government should make the peole happy and the people in return should do their share to make the country productive and peaceful :-)
426672
Yes the control of Money/Power/Wealth is in the wrong hands "Congress" and illegitimately the corporate ruling class. Hence Local,State and Federal official not accountable to the public they are intended to represent plus an over abundant of Government entities that are completely inept in serving or providing to the public. They need to be held under the standard of immediate job loss if not productive same for elected officials! Also if the public had control of Money/Power/Wealth then we would not have products and services of low Quality for they would not be patronized! Equal access for all legal citizens to Money/Power/Wealth pricing control extreme immigration restrictions etc.
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That is a good story.\n\nBut, one reason for Government is to provide goods and services that can be a "collective action problem" or "free rider problem".  In a society, there will always be examples of the entire public good being improved by small contributions from every resident, while the entire populace would be greatly disserved by ignoring those contributions.\n\nA good example is the interstate system, (Thanks Eisenhower!) or the National Defense. A small contribution (i.e taxes) from each individual can add up to insure that goods and services can travel around the country, and that we don't get invaded.  \n\nIn current terms, we have two choices. A) give relief in the form of monetary aid to Hurricane Katrina victims on the gulf coast, with each citizen making a relatively small sacrifice in the form of taxes or B) choose not to give that aid, and watch tens of thousands of people suffer, through death , illness, bankruptcy, etc.\n\nI think most people believe we have an obligation to provide relief to some, but we all seem to draw a different line in the sand about what constitutes a "small contribution". \nFor example, it's expected that an additional $120 billion will be allocated to the Mideast war(s). That's about 350-400 dollars per American citizen. Is this a small contribution?\n\nEvery person draws their line differently.
559871
The usual purpose is to set a dictatorship government! A dictatorship as you know is a government where Somebody or a group of people take or have absolute power over every one else, so about the funds, they just come from the people of lower class! The activities are usually giving orders to people and  requesting  money from them!\n\nHope I helped!
268860
Taxes are also about redistribution of wealth.  They collect taxes and the money is paid to G W's friends for weapons, drugs, and oil
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There is no provision in either document you cite which says keeping all the fruits of our earnings is a part of freedom.\n\nNow, our founding fathers were involved in colony govts before they were involved in rebellion.  In Virginia, our house of burgesses provided money every year to every widow and orphan.  We also applied our tax money to construction projects for the common good.  We also had courts to help protect our rights.  \n\nWhen we had our revolution, we were opposed to taxation WITHOUT representation, we were not opposed to taxation.  We never have been.\n\nYou have a pretty limited view of humanity and our responsibility to create a just society.   Plus, you seem to be basing it on parts of our founding documents which don't exist.
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A.\n\nThe national government does most of that with the taxes and then redistributes with things like Social Security and welfare.
445511
A very good question!  If you break these down into  categories it would seem that people in the middle class have individual, family, community, and  national duties and responsibilities.  They may also have international or  global responsibilities if they choose to impose these upon themselves.  And they may have universal responsibilities if they happen to be religious enough for  that.\n\nIndividual duties:  to be honest, loyal, responsible and reliable people; to be independent of the support of others; to get a good education; to work; to succeed.\n\nFamily duties:  To reproduce, to support and care for their children and spouses; to take care of their parents in old age; to keep a clean and orderly house; to protect family members; to  keep family traditions.\n\nCommunity duties:  To respect the property of others; to  vote in local elections; to  support local schools and gov't by paying your taxes; to support local law enforcement by helping the police; to engage in honest and legal business practices; to  be a helpul neighbor and to keep your property in good shape.\n\nNational duties:  To be an informed voter in national elections; to pay national taxes; to serve in the armed forces; to take action against corrupt national gov't; to be proud of your country; to honor the gov't and flag of your country;  to represent your country favorably when abroad.\n\nInternational duties: to  donate to international charitable organizations; to try to investigate whether the UN is actually a fair organization; to honor international borders and not try to get into other countries illegally; to learn foreign languages and cultures.\n\nOf course, these are the duties of all citizens, not just the middle class.  Even poor folks can be helpful, useful, honest, responsible, and patriotic.