Quotes About Redistribution

Something for nothing given to one group is nothing for something taken from another.

This would be entirely consistent with a reformation that was less about the assertion of faith and principle than about the redistribution of power and wealth.

social justice" in practice is just a rationale for the taking of one person's achievements, and giving them to others who are favored by the party in power.

That theme is individual freedom. The economic redistribution that progressives demand is not "fairness," as they maintain. Socialism is theft and a war on individual freedom.

The law of socialist economy is this: from each according to his exploitability, to the nomenklatura according to its greed.

God called, 'Come to my feast.' Then what happened? Rockefeller, Morgan, and their crowd stepped up and took enough for 120 million people and left only enough for 5 million of all the other 125 million to eat. And so many millions must go hungry and without these good things God gave us unless we call on them to put some of it back.

From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs." —The Communist Manifesto

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

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

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

Socialism is politicized envy.

It occurred to him that thinking like this could explain why, even after all the jobs he'd pulled, he rarely had much money in his pockets. Sometimes it seemed like he stole money from one place just to give it away somewhere else.

Government can only spend a dollar to help someone when it forcibly takes a dollar from someone else.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Now, what do we mean when we say revolutionary Socialist? We mean that the land shall belong to the landless, the tools to the toiler, and the products to the producers

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

The American left's motto comes from the English Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw: "Any government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul's support.

It's all very well to talk about the nation of producers and the interests of the nation, but who decides what its true interests are? Socialists claim to be in favor of equitable redistribution of income and wealth, but who determines what is equitable and does the actual redistribution? To these questions, the fascists answered: we do, through the instrument of the powerful centralized state. And this is also, in America, the answer that today's progressives give.

The socialist temptation is widely described by conservatives as the temptation to live off "free stuff." But this is not so—the temptation is actually more complex. It is the temptation to annihilate one's conscience by feeling justified in living off other people's work.

socialism is the ideology of thieves and

What kind of generosity is it that forcibly seizes and then disburses other people's money? This is not generosity; it's larceny.