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Actually, you don't just "Redistribute the money."
That only results in staving off the current problem.
You take that 10% of the money you have freed up, and then spend it on boosting your infrastructure and paying off your debt, with improves employment and helps business by removing certain barriers to them getting goods to market.
You also improve funding towards the sciences, which helps business by upping the technological level of America, and helps boost employment by creating new products that the rest of the world hopefully wants.
Taxes are not there to "Play Robin Hood" they are there to pay the bills and improve what your country has.
