There are plenty of examples of people redistributing wealth, whether through taxes or less palatable means that worked out well for the poor. There are also plenty of places that do nothing that are a disaster.
"Redistribution" at some point becomes blatant theft from productive people to give to unproductive people. I guess taxes need to scale up with wealth to some extent but it needs to be done in a way that doesn't encourage freeloading and doesn't encourage envy.
