Not exact matches
Right now there is probably not enough sentiment in favor of economic equality and
redistribution of
wealth to make
use of the knowledge or to mobilize the political power.
This would include roads, infrastructure, post office, things that all
use and that clearly are not a
redistribution of
wealth, or a forcing of some people to support others.
Dedicated do - gooders can
use their round of events as an exercise in the
redistribution of
wealth.
It is also
used for its secondary effects: punitive taxation, taxation
used as an incentive (e.g. protectionist tariffs, environmental taxes to reduce pollution, sin taxes on gambling or drugs, financial transaction taxes, Pigovian taxes), foreign policy (tariffs),
wealth redistribution (progressive taxation, negative income tax).
Additionally, one of the
wealth redistribution schemes our socialist friends came up with was to
use some strange government backed and approved CO2 market.