No government in the world undertakes simply to redistribute money from rich to poor.
What it really does, as Thomas pointed out, is redistribute health care buying power.
The latest budget for the city-state aims to redistribute by hiking the general sales tax.
They merely redistribute wealth to home-owners from non-home-owners who may hope to buy in the future.
Even if we were to redistribute the outcome of their labor, inequality would still exist.
In addition, economists have long realized that unions can create value, and not just redistribute it.
Speaking on radio, Mr Monti pledged to take measures to redistribute wealth in the country.
Republican president Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 proposed using the political power of the government to redistribute wealth.
Even amongst poorer Americans, large majorities prefer policies that boost economic growth to those that redistribute wealth.
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The Stormont executive is being urged to redistribute money earmarked for the stalled A5 to other roads projects.
Ms Dati plans to close 178 of the 473 magistrates' courts, and 23 county courts, and redistribute staff.
The Blair government, however, has more or less eschewed new efforts to use the government to redistribute income.
When Labour came to power, he wished naturally to persuade them to nationalise more industries and redistribute wealth.
Many food banks now collect leftover foods from hotels and restaurants and redistribute them to those in need.
Mr Selig can now redistribute baseball's revenues from the Internet to poorer clubs.
There is already a history of ICANN empowering other organizations to redistribute domains.
If anyone tried to force them to redistribute, they simply picked up and moved on to another hunting ground.
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Put simply, Republicans will never win the battle over who can redistribute wealth.
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They expect the constituent assembly to prise open institutions, possibly with quotas, and redistribute wealth, largely through land reform.
America after 1945 realised that its own growth would be imperilled if it did not redistribute massively to Europe.
The most troubling aspect of CVRs from an investor standpoint, however, is the way the instruments redistribute risk in deals.
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President Obama wants to widen progressive income-tax rates to redistribute more money from the upper income to the middle class.
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The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) plans to abolish existing wards in 10 parishes across Cumbria and redistribute them.
The programs are available to all to use, manipulate, change and redistribute, without the proprietary interests that normally control software development.
But while the latter might redistribute the burden of higher inflation, it will do nothing to alleviate the underlying inflationary pressures.
That threatens CBS' ability to collect fees from traditional service providers such as cable TV for rights to redistribute its stations' signals.
Peanut's syndicator, United Media, said that it plans to redistribute old editions of the strip, beginning with 1974, for an indefinite period.
But there may be fiercer debates, even in America, about using the tax and benefits system to redistribute more of the winnings.
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Or does the problem lie with the politicians who redistribute the wealth and the citizens who have failed to supervise their politicians?
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European officials predict that their policy will redistribute wealth to poor neighbours.
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