The government should not take from some, with the goal of lowering their standard of living to give to others, even if the goal is to heighten their standard of living.
'The goal of lowering their standard of living'? What is wrong with you? This is like the time the otherwise very wise John Irving said that rich people in Vermont were a persecuted class.
If you're goal is to lower economic inequality, then you have two goals:
a) To make one part of society poorer.
b) To make another part of society richer.
Unless that isn't the goal?
Are you certain your a conservative? Generally speaking conservatives don't express economics as a zero-sum game. When it comes to lowering tax rates on the rich, eliminating business regulations such as those promoting a clean environment or safe working conditions, free trade to enable products to imported from countries with legal sweatshops, and a whole host of other conservative economic nostrums the constant refrains have been that a rising tide will lift all boats and that the benefits government grants the rich will tickle down to the poor. Its unusual for an economic conservative to so openly express disdain for the poor schmucks are needed as votes by the robber barons.