Consider that in the decade preceding 2009 the bottom 99 percent of Americans shouldered approximately 63 percent of federal taxes, and that those taxes were allocated into the pockets of the top 1 percent, in part, through war and militarization. Also consider that the richest of the rich pay significantly lower tax rates than the working class. If we look at these facts rationally we come to understand the true meaning of the phrase “redistribution of wealth.” That it is not a picture of the rich giving disproportionally a piece of “their” pie to the working class for our sustenance, but rather it is a picture of the rich taking the entire pie from working class tables and expecting thanks for the crumbs left.