WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney moved Wednesday to broaden the presidential campaign into a debate over redistribution of wealth, which was aided by the release of a recording of a young Barack Obama supporting that goal. Romney's action arose from his need to change the subject from some of his own recorded remarks. Nonetheless, it raises a fundamental question over spending that underlies the election choice between Democrats, who favor a more expansive role for government, and Republicans, who don't. The question of how much to tax some Americans and how much to give to others is hardly new, dating at least to the origin of the progressive income tax a century ago and the advent of Social...
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