Quotes About Redistribution

You can't make the poor rich, by making the rich poor

Si el Estado del Bienestar redistribuye la pobreza y reduce los ingresos, el buenismo educativo redistribuye la ignorancia y reduce el conocimiento".

It's hard to improve our schools. It's hard to redistribute wealth created by the concentration of technological and financial power or to increase middle-class wages. But it might be easier to lower middle-class costs by building more housing.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

aunque la economía de goteo hacia abajo no funciona, la economía de goteo hacia arriba sí puede funcionar: todo el mundo —incluso los de arriba— podría beneficiarse dando más a los de abajo y a los de en medio.

University of California professor Emmanuel Saez, Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics, and Stefanie Stantcheva of the MIT Department of Economics, carefully taking into account the incentive effects of higher taxation and the societal benefits of reducing inequality, have estimated that the tax rate at the top should be around 70 percent—what it was before President Reagan started his campaign for the rich.68 But

Quinto, los programas de Gobierno para conseguir una prosperidad compartida deberían enfocarse a la vez en la distribución de los ingresos de mercado —lo que a veces se denomina predistribución— y la redistribución, los ingresos de que disfrutan los individuos tras los impuestos y pagos.

Lograr una sociedad más justa requiere de igualdad de oportunidades, pero a la vez esta requiere de mayor igualdad de ingresos y riqueza.

To put it baldly, there are two ways to become wealthy: to create wealth or to take wealth away from others.

we have a system that has been working overtime to move money from the bottom and middle to the top, but the system is so inefficient that the gains to the top are far less than the losses to the middle and bottom.

there are two ways to become wealthy: to create wealth or to take wealth away from others.

Trickle-up economics can work, even when trickle-down economics doesn't. Even

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong

There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, "Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

By putting themselves at the mercy of the village head-man, a peasant family improved its chances of benefiting from the regular redistribution of fields. Not infrequently, the headman would take the best fields for himself and his favorites. But that was a risk that peasants had to tolerate in order to enjoy the survival insurance

'Redistributing the wealth' - that phrase gets used so much that you almost get numb to it.

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

The amount of good and bad in the world always remains the same. It neither increases nor decreases, it only changes hands.

These abiding words of the Beatitudes are, more than anything else, a promise of impending deliverance from subservience and foreign rule. They predict a radically new world order wherein the meek inherit the earth, the sick are healed, the weak become strong, the hungry are fed, and the poor are made rich. In the Kingdom of God, wealth will be redistributed and debts canceled. "The first shall be last and the last shall be first" (Matthew 5:3–12 | Luke 6:20–24).

From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.