Quotes About Redistribution

The genealogy of the modern redistributive state—with its notorious tendency to foster identity politics—can be traced back not to any sort of "primitive communism" but ultimately to violence and war.

Redistributive effects and increasing social inequality have in fact been such a persistent feature of neoliberalization as to be regarded as structural to the whole project. Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, after careful reconstruction of the data, have concluded that neoliberalization was from the very beginning a project to achieve the restoration of class power.

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.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.

For government to give, it must first take away.

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them.

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

If government goes beyond securing liberty and instead violates it through regulation, redistribution, and planning, then citizens are victims of legal plunder.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

People at the top spend less money than those at the bottom, so when you have redistribution toward the top, aggregate demand goes down. Unless you intervene, you're going to have a weak economy unless something else happens.

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