President Cristina Fernandez argues that the increases are necessary for better wealth distribution.
The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said the severity of the economic downturn - and the need to make huge savings - might well force politicians to look much more fundamentally at the role of the state and the nature of wealth distribution.
According to a recent Gallup survey only 47% of national adults believe that we should redistribute wealth by heavily taxing the rich even though only 35% of adults believe that the current distribution of wealth in America is fair.
Even if we redistributed all the wealth today, the distribution would be unequal again tomorrow.
It also suggests that Americans are unaware of the actual distribution of wealth in America.
The group suggested, for immediate action, the improvement of national accountability and more equitable distribution of wealth.
The former Cardinal placed a strong emphasis on the distribution of wealth, not the creation of it.
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Whether this extra spending leads to real economic growth or a new distribution of wealth is another matter.
The distribution of wealth inequality is far worse than the disparity in incomes.
Brazil's first working-class president, a favorite with Brazil's poorer voters, promised clean government and a fairer distribution of wealth.
Your point on the distribution of wealth is well taken however, we seem to have fewer statesmen and benevolent business leaders.
The distribution of wealth sometimes is unfair, not because of the operation of markets, but because markets so often are not allowed to operate.
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The authors' models suggest that a less equitable distribution of wealth can boost demand for government borrowing to provide for the lagging average worker.
The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.
He said he wanted to ensure a fairer distribution of wealth in a country that had long been governed by a small business- and land-owning elite.
From the end of WWII to the end of the 1960s, the economic thinking was focused on the distribution of wealth and its use to better society.
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In the 1890s, when he was a doctoral student, Swiss economist Pareto found that the distribution of wealth and income in France deviated from the bell curve in a unique way.
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They promise transparency and a fairer distribution of wealth.
As you can see from the chart, the actual distribution of wealth is weighted heavily toward the top 20%, whereas most Americans would prefer to see the majority of wealth much more evenly distributed.
However, I cannot help but note that there is a world of difference between putting something on the front pages of the newspapers for a few weeks and achieving changes in laws and, above all, in the distribution of wealth.
"Distribution of inherited wealth is very unequal and correlated with social class, " he says.
The distribution of resource wealth is also once again fuelling conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo .
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He maintains his position by the display and distribution of that wealth.
So we have two major problems with this report about the distribution of incomes and wealth.
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But as money comes to buy more and more, the distribution of income and wealth looms larger.
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But this is nonsense: what we want to know is what is the wealth after we have changed the distribution: only then can we try to work out whether we would like to change it some more.
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They have entirely ignored almost all of the things we do to change the distribution of income and wealth: they have measured them both before what we do to change them rather than what we want to know, after we have and thus what more do we need to do.
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There is no question that inequality has been rising in the United States and that it raises numerous issues concerning what is a fair distribution of income and wealth, what taxes we ought to raise, and how to prevent those who acquire great economic power from also gaining excessive political power (through campaign contributions).
This fact is entirely about the wealth at the bottom tail of the distribution, not the top tail.
The classic philanthropy model (the super rich who devote the rest of their lives to the effective distribution and use of their wealth to alleviate societal ills) is still a long way away for China as it needs to overcome the lack of religious, cultural and historical precedents to philanthropy that is so evident in western countries.
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