One of government's primary duties is the redistribution of income, so that the better off can help the worse off out of poverty.

政府的主要职责之一就是收入的重新分配，这样富裕的人能帮助贫穷的人摆脱贫困。

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The budget office report tells us that essentially all of the upward redistribution of income away from the bottom 80 percent has gone to the highest-income 1 percent of Americans.

预算办公室的报告告诉我们，从底层80%人群向上的收入重新分配的基本上全部都流到收入最高的1%美国人当中。

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The political consensus, therefore, has sought to pursue economic growth rather than the redistribution of income, in keeping with John Kennedy's adage that "a rising tide lifts all boats."

由此，美国政界达成共识，与其探究如何对收入加以重新分配，还不如追求经济总量的增长，这也符合约翰·肯尼迪的名言“一潮起而百船升”。

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The economy needs help. But rather than stimulating the economy by providing an improved incentives to work and invest, we have been devoting trillions of dollars in taxpayer money to expanding and creating permanent long-term government spending programs and income-redistribution mechanisms,".

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I want to go back to the arguments for and against the redistribution of income.

我想继续回到对收入再分配问题,赞同与否的论辩。

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Globalisation is causing the biggest shift in relative prices (of labour, capital, commodities and goods) for a century, and this in turn is causing a significant redistribution of income.

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The result will be a dramatic redistribution of income, a rapid erosion of the West's relative economic clout and, for many Western citizens, an end to the cosy expectations of ever rising living standards.

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Moreover, whereas the 10% share in 1912 was spent largely on legitimate functions (defense, police, courts, infrastructure), most of the 40% today is spent on illegitimate functions like the redistribution of income, unfunded Ponzi schemes (Social Security), and deeply-larded public employee unions.

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