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Examples of government programs performing compulsory income redistribution include [[welfare]] and [[progressive taxation]]. Socialists believe that increased redistribution and consequent reductions in inequality lead to better outcomes for individual welfare and freedom. Likewise, Professor Richard Layard has argued that "in societies where income differences between rich and poor are smaller, the statistics show not only that community life is stronger and people are much more likely to trust each other; but also there is less violence – including substantially lower homicide rates – health is better and life expectancy several years longer, prison populations are smaller; birth rates among teenagers are lower, levels of educational attainment among school children tend to be higher; and there is more social mobility. In all cases, where income differences are narrower, outcomes are better."
Examples of government programs performing compulsory income redistribution include [[welfare]] and [[progressive taxation]]. Socialists believe that increased redistribution and consequent reductions in inequality lead to better outcomes for individual welfare and freedom. Likewise, Professor Richard Layard has argued that "in societies where income differences between rich and poor are smaller, the statistics show not only that community life is stronger and people are much more likely to trust each other; but also there is less violence – including substantially lower homicide rates – health is better and life expectancy several years longer, prison populations are smaller; birth rates among teenagers are lower, levels of educational attainment among school children tend to be higher; and there is more social mobility. In all cases, where income differences are narrower, outcomes are better."
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==Quotes==
*"Attempts to redistribute wealth repeatedly led to the redistribution of poverty." -- [[Thomas Sowell]] [http://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Earth-Rise-Fall-Socialism/dp/1893554783/ref=cm_lmf_tit_9_rdssss0]
*"The republic will cease to exist when Government takes from those who are industrious and gives to those who refuse to work." -- [[Thomas Jefferson]]<ref name=wnd>http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=144865</ref>
*"[Obama's] policies, like those of FDR, seek to destroy America from within as a pretext to comprehensively remake the republic into a servile, Marxist welfare state." -- [[Ellis Washington]], in reference to [[Obama|Obama's]] policies on income distribution<ref name=wnd></ref>
==References==
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==See Also==
*''[[Heaven on Earth]]''
*''[[Heaven on Earth]]''
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