Causes of poverty Quote by 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

“Economic institutions that create incentives for economic progress may simultaneously redistribute income and power in such a way that a predatory dictator and others…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off…

— Robert Higgs

That's the problem with very high taxes - they don't redistribute wealth; they redistribute people.

— Daniel Hannan

The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution -- because I actually…

— Barack Obama

The real question is whether the federal government should be in the business of redistributing wealth to equalize the economic status of every state,…

— Bill Foster

It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.

— Robert Reich

The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.

— David Harvey

“Government does not create resources when it taxes people and prints money; it merely redistributes the wealth.”

— Ron Paul

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

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by…

— Hans F. Sennholz

The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

— Ha-Joon Chang