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favoring, supporting, or practicing income redistribution

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Usage examples (36)
  • If it's labor law, then it's discriminatory towards helping bakers at the expense of bakery owners, and redistributive, which is unconstitutional.
  • It is in this way that a "redistributive" policy can be universally beneficial and not a zero sum game.
  • McCain and the press were out-and-out misrepresenting what was said, as they are on the "redistributive" quote, and the public needs to understand when that happens.
  • It is fairer, more "redistributive", and simpler than the present messy system.
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