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… is from page 344 of the 2016 second edition of Thomas Sowell’s important volume Wealth, Poverty and Politics [2] (footnote excluded; link added; original emphases):
The concentration of power being sought by the redistributionists is usually as completely ignored as the productivity differences behind differences in income and wealth. Indeed, a whole vocabulary of camouflage words obscures the concentration of power involved. Thus, Professor John Rawls, for example, refers repeatedly [3] to how “society” should “arrange” certain economic outcomes, when only the government has the power to force millions of people to accept a third party’s overriding of the transactions terms agreed to by transactors dealing directly with each other.