Steven Horwitz responds to J.D. Vance's address at the National Conservatism Conference:

"This argument treats libertarian criticisms of political power as either psychological “discomfort” or unexplained “skepticism.” If not that, then the refusal to use political power is the result of ignoring that we have political choices or pretending none are to be made. All of these claims deeply misunderstand the libertarian aversion to the use of political power and ignore the role that such power can often play in causing the very problems further use of such power is hoping to solve."

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The distribution of income lies at the heart of an enduring issue in political economy—the extent to which government should redistribute income from those with more income to those with less.
 

Whether government should redistribute income is a normative question, and each person’s answer will depend on his or her values. But for many people, answering the normative question requires understanding the facts about the current income distribution.

• See also National Income Accounts, by Mack Ott
• Redistribution, by Dwight Lee
• Taxation, by Joseph J. Minarik
• See also Discovering Positive Deviants, EconTalk Extra by Amy WIllis
• See also Should Governments Reduce Inequality in Life Spans? by Dwight R. Lee 
• Social Security, by Thomas R. Saving
• Population, by Ronald Demos Lee