Quotes About Income Redistribution

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

Ari Fleischer

#4. 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

#5. Ah! this morning! You have lived since then.

Oscar Wilde

#6. 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

#7. In the silence, hear what can't be heard.

Ben Lee

#8. Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t?

Quentin Crisp

#9. Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

A.E. Samaan

#10. Music makes my soul happy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

#12. Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. We know every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering....

- Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 1986

Edward Iwata

#14. Well." Wolfe was judicious. "You were not under oath. The police have been lied to informally many times by many people, including me. The right to lie in the service of your own interests is highly valued and frequently exercised.

Rex Stout

#15. Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug

Geoffrey Blainey

#16. A poem is a naked person ... Some people say that I am a poet.

Bob Dylan

#17. It's a simple proposition to us: Everyone is entitled to adequate medical health care. If you call that a 'redistribution of income'
well, so be it. I don't call it that. I call it just being fair
giving the middle class taxpayers an even break that the wealthy have been getting.

Joe Biden

#18. Phule had propounded the theory of the Aryan invasion as the source of oppression; dalit radicals of the 1920s took it to its extreme; Amedkar denied it.

Gail Omvedt

#19. I'm in love with you, Rosemary Rose. Madly and irrevocably in love. What do you propose to do about it?

Fay Chandos

#20. Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are
a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.

Ha-Joon Chang

#21. Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

Ernest Hemingway,