Quotes About Redistribution

The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.

It's only socialism if the money goes down, not up.

Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor

the State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man.

Every bit of capital, therefore, which is given to a shiftless and inefficient member of society, who makes no return for it, is diverted from a reproductive use; but

The primary function of financial capitalism is to efficiently funnel money from those with an excess of it to those who need it.

The poor man is called a socialist if he believes that the wealth of the rich should be divided among the poor, but the rich man is called a financier if he devises a plan by which the pittance of the poor can be converted to his use.

As the great classicist Moses Finley often liked to say, in the ancient world, all revolutionary movements had a single program: "Cancel the debts and redistribute the land.