This is the lens through which the privileged see the world Corporate tax reduction = Reform Capital gains tax cut = Reform Near free land to industry = Reform Near free IIT/IIM education = My birthright Free/subsidized food to the poor = Fiscal profligacy Free healthcare = Revadi Reservations = Anti-merit I still remember when MGR was promoting the mid day meal scheme in Tamilnadu schools, how much breast-beating there was in financial papers that this was undesirable spending. And yet that changed the outcome in terms of education and Human development for the state. Simply put: anything that benefits the privileged is classified under Reform whereas anything benefiting the under privileged, even if it is in health & education without which the country/economy can't prosper, is 'a waste of taxpayer money', Anti-merit etc Arey Bhai, one of the objectives of taxation IS some amount of redistribution, at least to ensure basics for the poorer segments.