"When I refer to "socialism", I am talking about widespread and prolonged forcible transfer of wealth by the state from the "wealthy" (often including the middle class) to the "poor" (after the bureaucrat class take their cut.)"
socialism is worker control of the means of production. What you are referring to is social democracy, which split from socialist action a long time ago when the time came for real action. Please do not call it socialism....
RE: The Socialist Poverty Formula