Believe Quote by Barack Obama

I actually believe in redistribution (of wealth)

— Barack Obama

Those who create the wealth naturally want to keep it and devote it to their own purposes. Those who wish to expropriate it look…

— Sheldon Richman

“The Realistic Vision acknowledges that people vary widely both physically and intellectually—in large part because of natural inherited differences—and therefore will rise (or fall)…

— Michael Shermer

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public…

— Joel Miller

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

— Henry Hazlitt

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

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

— George Will

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in…

— Susan George

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we…

— Michael Bloomberg

I believe in a progressive tax structure that fairly distributes the costs of government in a way that those of us fortunate to have…

— Brad Schneider

One way to have broader access to wealth is to reduce the tax on the large group and increase the tax on the very…

— Thomas Piketty