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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Where the left may desire to redistribute the wealth, we have to appreciate the fact that wealth must first be created before it can be redistributed.
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We are not looking for a president who wants to make us more like Europe, manage the slow decline of a great nation, and redistribute the wealth.
The new tax may send a definite message to wealthy citizens to redistribute their wealth to the rest of the Russian riff-raff.
Speaking on radio, Mr Monti pledged to take measures to redistribute wealth in the country.
There is no force more effective than free markets to reallocate resources and redistribute wealth from the undeserving and unproductive, politically connected elites to the hardworking political nobodies who consume the real goods and services each other produce.
Within this narrative, free market advocates must fight every attempt by tree-hugging Luddites and their socialist fellow travelers to interfere in the free flow of information, goods, and services that are responsible for driving innovation and creating all the wealth the left is trying to redistribute.
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According to a recent Gallup survey only 47% of national adults believe that we should redistribute wealth by heavily taxing the rich even though only 35% of adults believe that the current distribution of wealth in America is fair.
Republican president Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 proposed using the political power of the government to redistribute wealth.
Why would Obama reduce entitlements that redistribute wealth when they force the social change he sees as his legacy?
While it could achieve this faster through higher economic growth, it could substantially raise and redistribute wealth levels even at the current sub-Chinese growth rates.
We hear all the time about how basic income taxes, government spending and inflation are redistributive in nature, but not mentioned enough is how both political parties use the tax code to redistribute wealth to favored constituents or individuals who live as Washington would like them to.
Put simply, Republicans will never win the battle over who can redistribute wealth.
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Chavez was a man "ready to battle any and all in order to redistribute wealth and to stand with the oppressed and against the oppressors, " he told BBC Radio 5 live.
The point of all of this is that while politicians and the media frequently look askance at great wealth on the way to compassionate programs meant to redistribute it, they rarely acknowledge how much work is required to get to that point.
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First, Americans have an ingrained distrust of the government and its ability to properly redistribute wealth.
The problem with that being that when you started to modify it using all of the things that we already do to redistribute wealth it came well down, down to 3 or 4 to 1 (please note, this is not about the top 1%, where the wealth disparities are much larger).
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Some have argued that increasing the minimum wage might reduce employment but still redistribute wealth to poor workers because their increased hourly wage might compensate for a reduction in employment.
While inflation does not itself redistribute wealth, it does put more money into the hands of those who see themselves as the wise arbiters of who should have how much.
The president offered his customary plans for government to redistribute wealth according to his vision, e.g.
They expect the constituent assembly to prise open institutions, possibly with quotas, and redistribute wealth, largely through land reform.
Dr Stuart White, head of the Public Policy Unit at Oxford University, is an advocate of citizen's inheritance, moving the process of inheriting money away from families deciding who gets what, to redistribute wealth.
Mr Roh's efforts while in office to redistribute wealth were reversed by his successor, Lee Myung-bak, a former boss of the Hyundai Group.
They merely redistribute wealth to home-owners from non-home-owners who may hope to buy in the future.
The prosperity we enjoy today suggests that the poor are helped most meaningfully by economic progress progress that we are forsaking in order to redistribute wealth ostensibly on their behalf and to fight wars of questionable merit and constitutionality.
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