Distribution Quote by Joan Robinson

There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.

— Robert Benchley

A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of…

— Walter Lippmann

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

— Calvin Coolidge

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

— Ben Bernanke

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

— Thomas Sowell

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence…

— Thomas Pogge

The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation…

— Henry Hazlitt

There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you…

— Arthur C. Brooks

“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

One of the worst features of all the plans for sharing wealth and equalizing or guaranteeing incomes is that they lose sight of the…

— Henry Hazlitt

If you really want to end income inequality, I've got the way to fix it. People who don't work shouldn't get any income.

— Rush Limbaugh

Subsidising inefficient businesses does not encourage them to become more competitive and means that extra money has to be taken from tax payers for…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg