redistribution of wealth

redistribution of wealth
   punitive taxation
   As Abe Lincoln observed, making the rich poor doesn't make the poor rich:
    ... wilful and cruel disruption of the economic fabric that was called the redistribution of wealth. (Allbeury, 1976)

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