A moral and political philosophy is not like a smorgasbord, where you get to pick and choose the offerings you like and leave the others behind without explanation. It is more like your mother telling you to clean everything on your plate. If you are a Utilitarian redistributionist, the height tax is like that awful tasting vegetable your mother served up because it is good for you. No matter how hard you might wish it wasn't there sitting on your plate, it just won't go away.
Judging by the philosophical haggling across the years by Democrats and Republicans, and all the myriad political movements that gained ground in the last century, this line is utter bulls
hit. Political philosophies
are smorgasbords, attaching almost any opinion onto it. I need to look no further than modern republicans and their democratic pool boys' hypocritical views on civil liberties, and warfare to tear down this assertion.