In recent years, redistributive monetary policy has benefited finance at the expense of other productive industries.
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Social divisions also play a role in determining who within a society prefers greater redistributive taxation.
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Christmas gift giving is, after all, a voluntary social program, as redistributive as any on record.
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We must promote redistributive taxation and other policies to reduce economic inequalities, both within and between countries.
Massive redistributive policies in Sweden did more than elsewhere to lower the top earners' share of total income.
Once the means of finance are taken into account, they are also less redistributive than you might expect.
This week brought another disguised, redistributive tax: a rise in the cost of licence plates for higher-powered cars.
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And the death of any kind of redistributive ethic makes it tough to seek solutions to social ills.
But this is to confuse philanthropic spending with the redistributive aims of taxation.
The most recent year that a large, nonpartisan survey asked people about both redistributive beliefs and charitable giving was 1996.
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The World Bank needs to throw its weight behind the redistributive policies required to achieve economic growth and greater equity.
And a government keener on redistributive clobbering of the middle classes, without breaking its pledge not to raise income-tax rates?
But it is right to consider the powerful redistributive effects of our current policies in our debates about increasing public revenue.
It is still redistributive, but with fewer big spending pledges and more emphasis on tax cuts than on benefits for low-earners.
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He also recommends redistributive policy measures to ensure that growth remains inclusive or generate many of the rich who drive illicit flows.
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Does rising income inequality mean that fiscal policy should be more redistributive?
The plans have provoked muted criticism from the Labour opposition, which says the new regime might be less redistributive than its predecessor.
This is workable because standard, long term, market investment returns are so much higher than what completely non-invested, purely redistributive Social Security promises.
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That is because long term market investment returns are so much higher than any possible returns under completely uninvested, purely redistributive Social Security.
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The differences in attitude towards redistributive taxes are not just between countries but also within them, and economists have several explanations as to why.
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Truth is, you meet very few hardcore redistributive leftists in business.
As Richard Blundell of University College, London, points out, one of the more redistributive societies on earth, Denmark, does pretty much what the panel recommends.
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No matter, argue the economists: far better to have undistorted consumption choices and to fulfil the government's redistributive aims more efficiently through the income-tax system.
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Whether New Labour is insufficiently redistributive is a matter of taste.
Mr McCain is warning that his opponent would be unduly redistributive.
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Increasingly, American unions are returning to the language of redistributive justice.
Ahmadinejad is "populist" who favors "redistributive justice" and "pays keen attention" to rural areas and small towns, where 75 percent of Iran's voters live, Afrasiabi said.
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But maybe more than anything, the very real side-effects of a highly productive global economy should make free-market proponents reconsider their hostility to a redistributive welfare state.
Policies should not be crafted based on public perception or public misconceptions of economic policy, and equality is not in and of itself the primary goal of a more redistributive state.
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