The time has come to get Washington out of the racket of income redistribution.
And nearly everyone agrees that the answer to more mobility is education, not income redistribution.
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Accepting income redistribution in principle still leaves many questions about how it should work in practice.
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It spends a lot on income redistribution, so poverty is low and income compressed.
Recognizing the serious income inequality problem in China, Beijing issued a new income redistribution policy in February.
This would convert what was meant to be a pension insurance program into an overt income redistribution program.
This issue is back in the headlines this week as the government unveiled a long-delayed income redistribution plan.
Like the entire Democratic agenda these days, Mr. Reid's tax gambit is preoccupied with income redistribution and politics.
Democracies tend to evolve two political parties, a party of economic growth and a party of income redistribution.
They saw urban violence as being useful for furthering their goal of forcing income redistribution on a massive scale.
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Income redistribution theft under the color of law not only is morally wrong, it is also economically destructive.
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You applaud police, fire departments, roads and schools, and from this you leap to the moral righteousness of income redistribution?
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But even on purely economic grounds, death taxes are spectacular failures as revenue raisers or a tool of income redistribution.
That bitterness the obsession with income redistribution and equality, the fear-and-envy approach are traditionally the remit of the far left of U.S. politics.
Many Republicans quoted from a Wall Street Journal editorial yesterday, calling the measure the largest income redistribution scheme since the income tax.
If the American electorate decides that income redistribution is the best that is available during an election season, they will vote Democrat.
When asked to pick my most frustrating issue, I could list things from my policy field such as class warfare or income redistribution.
The Republican Party will either deliver economic growth, or the electorate will turn to the Democrats for income redistribution to ease the pain.
What's more, the pattern of income redistribution has become much more marked in the past four years as Mr Brown has increasingly played Robin Hood.
Only a few can be net beneficiaries of income redistribution.
Instead, it is the much more Machiavellian question of how to build a case for income redistribution, which is altogether the wrong question to be asking in a free society.
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Capitalist development, not income redistribution, brought that change.
Because attempts to defend capitalism strictly within the bounds of a two-sided dialectic can only accelerate the emergence of a populist regime that fuses the centralized economic controls of fascism with the income redistribution of socialism.
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If not, they will vote for income redistribution, in an effort to assure that everyone survives so that they can enjoy the fruits of economic growth, if and when political leaders emerge who understand how to produce it.
More importantly, continued policy focus on income redistribution perpetuates the idea that income inequality is the root of middle class economic problems, rather than the effect, allowing for the continued avoidance of the deep-rooted structural issues in the U.S. economy.
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Secondly, this market income number does not include the income redistribution that is already done in the US. Sure, this is much less than in mahy other countries but adding Medicaid, Section 8, SNAP, the EITC, together we get to what, 5-7% of GDP or so?
Not only will it reallocate resources away from unproductive government uses toward more productive private enterprises, but it also will stem the tide of wealth and income redistribution that is stalling the engines of capitalism, instilling dependency among the people and fostering class resentment and a sense of entitlement while destroying freedom and initiative.
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Income-redistribution programs that became widespread in the 1960s and 1970s had a much smaller influence than market forces.
This theory explains some cross-country differences, but it would also predict increased support for redistribution as income inequality widens.
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