That's just a bad utilitarian argument for theft. The point is, and the case against the State is, that there is no means of measuring interpersonal utility; our preferences are ranked ordinally and not cardinally, and so there is no way to measure the "social utility" gained for the "common good" that you speak of. Even if there was, there's then no ethical case for such property expropriation you nicely call "redistribution."
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