A lot of people believe that when they pay that 2 percent to Columbus, we're getting some of it, but that's not the case. The 0.3-percent does stay here. Any additional income created by an income-tax increase will be a redistribution of what's already being paid. A resident wouldn't owe any more money to Columbus.
Quotes about redistribution (16 Quotes)
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?
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.
In the 1960s, liberals were arguing there was a constitutional basis to allow a judicially imposed redistribution of wealth 'Why should one person live in a hovel and another live in a palace', ... None of it got off the ground.
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
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
From where I am sitting much of the country now sees the President the way I have seen him since the campaign. He is an ambitious leftist, with little understanding of economics, and with far-reaching goals to create significant and irreversible growth of government and redistribution of wealth through dramatic changes in tax, regulatory, and spending policies.
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.
For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.
The report will talk more about rural China and other conflicts within the economy, such as income redistribution, social security and medical reform.
A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources.
Tom has been a very effective advocate for the redistribution of resources for business startups. I would certainly say that many of us who are traditional practitioners of economic development become too narrowly focused on business recruitment when in fact the lion's share of jobs are generated through existing industry expansions and new business.
It is time for taxes to be more aggressively cut in order for the tax burden as a percentage of gross domestic product to decline to below 25 percent in line with the Gear Growth, Employment and Redistribution strategy.
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.
Everyone was up in volume, but if some are up more, it means redistribution of the market, ... The real growth has come from the Koreans and Europeans while the Big Three (GM, Ford and DaimlerChrysler) really suffered loss in market share.
Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.