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Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt. -- Susan George
Redistribution divided society into two social classes: the beneficiaries of transfer, who are calling for ever more; and the victims, who submit unwillingly. It could hardly fail to injure social peace and harmony. -- Hans F. Sennholz
Redistribution depends on three things, amnesia,meaning you don't remember the murderous paths of these beliefs. Envy, you hate the successful in the present and used, people who have nothing to earn yet. -- Jedediah Bila
I don't believe in a redistribution of wealth. -- Brad Schneider
A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution. -- Ari Fleischer
The tactics of Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama are geared toward wealth redistribution. -- Monica Crowley
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time. -- Douglas Coupland
Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions. -- Ron Paul
For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods. -- Jane Byrne
But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution. -- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top. -- Bill Maris
Food redistribution is economically sensible, ecologically pressing, and socially responsible; it is high time food corporations woke up to it and governments started funding the organisations that facilitate it. -- Tristram Stuart
History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy. -- Victor Davis Hanson
Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little. -- Christina Romer
As with most animal eggs, the early events of amphibian development are largely independent of the environment, and the processes leading to cell differentiation must involve a redistribution and interaction of constituents already present in the fertilized egg. -- John Gurdon
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Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity? -- Paul Ryan
We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution: How much of our wealth, if any, should we give away to the hungry abroad? -- Thomas Pogge
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives. -- Arthur C. Brooks
Socialism is about claims of justice, and it is also about money: about wealth, income, physical and financial capital. It is an ideology based on allocating economic resources. It may try to achieve that goal by nationalizing assets, by command-and-control regulation, or by taxation and redistribution. -- Virginia Postrel
I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire. -- Vince Cable
Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months. -- James Surowiecki
The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth. -- Steve Wynn
Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution. -- Ben Shapiro
To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall. -- Jack Kemp
I actually believe in redistribution (of wealth) -- Barack Obama
Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; -- Felix Rohatyn
Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution. -- Ben Shapiro
Monetary expansion is a massive scheme of hidden redistribution. -- Murray Rothbard
War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth. -- Kenneth Waltz
Clearly, the left-wing groups want to use this carbon theme as a tool for wealth redistribution. -- Lubos Motl
The Democrats, because they believe in socialism, redistribution, forced the banks and financial institutions to make the risky loans. -- Sean Hannity
If government goes beyond securing liberty and instead violates it through regulation, redistribution, and planning, then citizens are victims of legal plunder. -- Richard Ebeling
We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution. -- Ken Blackwell
Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war. -- Paul Craig Roberts
I'm the same weight now as I've always been-even before having children-but I have to say there's been a redistribution of the flesh! -- Francesca Annis
The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth. -- Andrew Napolitano
Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute. -- Helmut Schoeck
I believe Social Security is unjust. I think it's wrong. I think it penalizes responsible people. It penalizes the young and it's a massive redistribution of wealth. -- Yaron Brook
If the economy is not expanding, the redistribution of income becomes a zero-sum game. And therefore, all the class struggle - and it becomes much more vicious. -- Manmohan Singh
What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself. -- Daniel Quinn
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. -- Josh Jones
Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work. -- Felix Rohatyn
We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. -- Stephen Hawking
Here in the United States, we've seen the failure of mass programs of redistribution and the fiscal crises to which they give rise. And yet many continue to defend and promote them. -- Robert Sirico
Government income redistribution programs produce the same result as theft. In fact, that's what a thief does; he redistributes income. The difference between government and thievery is mostly a matter of legality. -- Walter E. Williams
It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid. -- Cass Sunstein
The hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities, could become obsolete. -- Jeremy Rifkin
Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may mask the disease and mitigate the pain, but provides no basic cure. -- Henry Hazlitt
If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it is easy to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes. -- Neal Boortz
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Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes. -- Richard Ebeling

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