Redistribution Quotes

Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

Impoverish the white middle class. Homeownership is racist/failed public policy.

The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.

There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth—by work, by gift, and by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

I would change the tax system markedly. The market system is wonderful but you have to take care of the poople who are left behind and do not profit from it.

An owner’s right to exclude others from his property is the means by which he can avoid “bads” from happening: events that will lower the value of his property. By means of an unceasing flood of redistributive legislation, the democratic state has worked relentlessly not only to strip its citizens of all arms (weapons) but also to strip domestic property owners of their right of exclusion, thereby robbing them of much of their personal and physical protection.

The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."

Charity is reaching into one's own pockets to assist his fellow man in need. Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity. When done privately, we deem it theft, and the individual risks jail time.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

If I had the power I would steal all your royal wealth and give it to Christ’s brothers and sisters.

Governments should end the extreme concentration of wealth in order to end poverty. This means tackling tax dodging but also increasing taxes on wealth and high incomes to ensure a more level playing field and generate the billions of dollars needed to invest in healthcare, education, and job creation.

What begins in Washington as simple, garden-variety grasping becomes an entitlement, the argument being that the longer the benefit has lived, the more the beneficiaries have built their lives around it, so ending it would be disruptive.

Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism -- the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big landlord class and the reactionary section of the intelligentsia attached to them…. As for the vacillating middle bourgeoisie, their right-wing may become our enemy and their left-wing may become our friend -- but we must be constantly on our guard and not let them create confusion within our ranks.

Government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us.

If the US government spends 40 percent of the nation's income, as it does through either borrowing or taxes, that income is not available for people to spend. The deficit is an indirect method of taxation. Of course, politicians prefer to borrow instead of tax because then someone down the road has to deal with the consequences.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

The tax should not stop at billionaires; it must reach centimillionaires. The tax has to reach all fortunes $50 million and up.

What the government gives it must first take away.

Aggressive land reform would be far less destabilizing than a violent revolt.

Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with somebody else's money, unless you first take it away from them? The only way you can take it away from them is the threat of force: you have a policeman, tax collector, who comes and takes it from them.