That's exactly what it is, but don't call it that

Interesting NYT article today on the lengths to which the MEC regime has gone to avoid the taint of the r-word - redistribution.

And Stanley Kurtz at NRO has the top eight takeaways from that article:

1. The White House intentionally hid Obamacare’s redistributive goals.
2. Policy experts knew all along but didn’t tell the public. (NYT filled with policy experts.)
3. Phrases NYT prefers to “intentionally lied:” obscured, the White House cleverly modulated Mr. Obama’s language, a word you just don’t use, the word is particularly toxic, it has been hidden away, semantic sidestep, discredited promise.
4. NYT blames American “political culture” for not calmly accepting Obama’s healthcare lies.
5. David Axelrod blames American political culture for Obama needing to lie in the first place.
6. Republican charges Obama feels must be deflected by disguising the truth: redistribution, socialized medicine, redistributor-in-chief, spreading the wealth around, closet socialist.
7. Republicans say Obama is hiding the truth about who he is and what he does. NYT agrees.
8. Openly admitting redistributive goals is a bad way to get an Obama administration job but a good way to get appointed university chancellor.

Number Eight refers to Rebecca M. Blank, who was passed over for head position at Council of Economic Advisors in 2011 due to the surfacing of a bit of her writing from 1992 in which she spoke plainly about what she felt was the need for redistribution.