My Conservative friends (and I have many) won't agree with this piece because it's by Paul Begala but it does raise an interesting issue. If five bucks is taken from a wealthy person in taxes and it indirectly goes to the betterment of a poor person somewhere, some scream, "Redistribution of wealth" and label it Socialism with a capital "S." But when vast amounts of cash are taken from wealthy states and spent over in poorer states…well, no one complains about that, least of all the recipients. And an awful lot of those recipients are folks who decry the first example as Marxism.