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Taking the pie apart to argue about slice sizes, then baking a smaller pie.
means The act of reallocating income, wealth, or resources among groups, usually through taxes, benefits, or policy, so that the distribution looks different than the market produced.
from Built from the Latin prefix 're-' (again) plus 'distribuere' (to deal out, divide among), itself from 'dis-' (apart) and 'tribuere' (to assign, give) — the same 'tribuere' that gives us 'tribute' and 'contribute.' So at its root it simply means 'to deal out again' — a plain bookkeeping word that politics later loaded with argument.
- not zero-sum myth
- growth and redistribution can coexist, economists still argue how much
- oldest trick
- ancient jubilees cancelled debts to reset inequality
- stealth version
- tax code loopholes redistribute upward, quietly, constantly
- political lightning rod
- one person's fairness is another's theft