Better off Quote by Robert Higgs

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

— Robert Reich

Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is…

— Robert Higgs

In the transfer society, the general public is not only poorer but also less contented, less autonomous, more rancorous, and more politicized. Individuals take…

— Robert Higgs

The transfer society is forever testing the bounds of patience of taxpayers. Having reached the limit and still facing loud demands for more benefits,…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

— Henry Ward Beecher

For one thing, Medicaid is an inefficient if not ineffective platform for redistributing income. It doesn't get the dollars to poor people in forms…

— Scott Gottlieb

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of…

— Richard Pipes

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

— Ayn Rand

Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and the others…

— Zygmunt Bauman

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

The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and poverty at…

— Linda McQuaig

Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.

— John Conyers