Like the Castros and other communist dictators, he used economic redistribution as a pretext for authoritarianism.
Douglas Schoen, another Democratic pollster, finds scant support for economic redistribution.
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In fact, I believe that the electorate is awaiting the emergence of a leader who can articulate an exquisite balance between the need for economic growth and the duty of economic redistribution.
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That is why economic growth, not redistribution, most benefits the poor, working people, and the middle class.
Cain proved that economic growth trumps austerity redistribution as a winning political narrative.
Democrats are calling for redistribution of economic and fiscal tax breaks from Wall Street and the rich to Main Street and the middle class.
The way to overcome this is through the competition of ideas demonstrating the far greater prosperity and gain for the people from rapid economic growth rather than redistribution.
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Since the election of Jefferson in 1803, the American people have always voted for economic growth and prosperity over redistribution, when the choice was articulated and offered to them.
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In fact, such redistribution would actually slash economic growth, and even reverse it, as we have seen in extreme socialist and communist countries around the world.
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The taxes to support that further redistribution would sharply slow economic growth by slashing the reward for productive activity, as would the equalization payments to the recipients.
Democracies tend to evolve two political parties, a party of economic growth and a party of income redistribution.
Confronted by the lack of independent fiscal levers at the mayor's disposal, Mr Livingstone saw economic growth as a way of achieving redistribution by other means.
Because attempts to defend capitalism strictly within the bounds of a two-sided dialectic can only accelerate the emergence of a populist regime that fuses the centralized economic controls of fascism with the income redistribution of socialism.
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They represent a feeling of economic and political exclusion and their demands include redistribution of land and expropriation of private property and foreign capital in favor of indigenous cooperatives and other forms of economic autonomy.
Rather than advocating high levels of spending and redistribution to compensate the inequality caused by economic failure, it planned to promote education and training and transform the welfare state from a passive safety net to an active 'springboard' of opportunity (Annesley, 2001, 204).
Until the Republicans advance a serious and workable plan to produce fast economic growth, the electorate will stick with the party of redistribution, the Democrats.
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With Brazil's tax burden and public debt already too high, the only sensible ways to fill the holes in its social safety net are economic growth (which now seems to be resuming) and a redistribution of existing spending towards those who most need it.
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This competition between the states holds out the prospect of remaking the economic and political map of America, as new economic state powers pursuing pro-growth policies arise, replacing the over-the-hill, declining, economic state powers pursuing the blind alleys of sterile, defunct, redistribution policies of the past.
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That principle is that economic growth provides vastly greater benefits for working people and the poor than redistribution.
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The Republican Party will either deliver economic growth, or the electorate will turn to the Democrats for income redistribution to ease the pain.
Central bankers whether Ben Bernanke, Mark Carney, or Mario Draghi can only use monetary policy-driven redistribution and inflation to tread water in a sea of distorted economic incentives for so long.
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This economic growth has enabled Kirchner to promote policies based on strong state intervention, redistribution and anti-corporatism.
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Economic growth is the foundation for job creation, and is far more beneficial than redistribution for the middle class and the poor, who will never gain when there is a shrinking pie.
The result will be a dramatic redistribution of income, a rapid erosion of the West's relative economic clout and, for many Western citizens, an end to the cosy expectations of ever rising living standards.
More importantly, continued policy focus on income redistribution perpetuates the idea that income inequality is the root of middle class economic problems, rather than the effect, allowing for the continued avoidance of the deep-rooted structural issues in the U.S. economy.
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But even on purely economic grounds, death taxes are spectacular failures as revenue raisers or a tool of income redistribution.
The costs to Europe of overgrown welfare systems are plain: its citizens pay for redistribution with high taxes, which may be one reason why Europe's economic performance has lagged behind America's.
Which brings us to the central economic dogma of collectivism, the justification for coercive and punitive progressive taxation that Marx held essential: Redistribution.
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If not, they will vote for income redistribution, in an effort to assure that everyone survives so that they can enjoy the fruits of economic growth, if and when political leaders emerge who understand how to produce it.
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