redistributional

An outspoken fan of the United Kingdom's single-payer system, Berwick was portrayed by critics as a socialist who once commented that "excellent health care is by definition redistributional."

Slate Articles Darshak Sanghavi 2012

Indeed, worrying economic prospects across the developed world and challenges to redistributional tax policy in the UK suggest concerted action is necessary to sustain and expand the progress that has been made on tackling inequality.

MDG targets are overlooking inequality | Richard Jolly 2011

The old notion that those terms have something to do with redistributional economics is increasingly replaced with an interpretation that makes those terms stand for diversity and identity politics — the preferred progressivism of corporations.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama’s Diverse Shortlist 2010

The outcome will be more spending, a higher combined income tax and VAT tax burden concentrated on a minority of voters, and a spate of special redistributional subsidies and exemptions that would mean higher rates.

A Value-Added Tax Fuels Big Government Ernest S. Christian 2011

Note also that Dr. Berwick has made himself notorious by warning of "the darkness of private enterprise," admitting his "love" for Britain's socialized National Health Service, and insisting that "excellent health care is by definition redistributional."

Dr. Berwick and That Fabulous Cuban Health Care 2010

Excellent health care is, by definition, redistributional.

The Copper State 2010

The old notion that those terms have something to do with redistributional economics is increasingly replaced with an interpretation that makes those terms stand for diversity and identity politics—the preferred progressivism of corporations.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama’s Diverse Shortlist 2010

Harvard economist Ken Rogoff predicts the United States will move toward "a more centralized, redistributional health-care system, as Europe already has," with a greater emphasis on the environment, higher regulation and increased protectionism.

Big Government Is Back—Big Time 2009

Thus, they have extremely questionable redistributional consequences among cardusers.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Credit Card Issuers Reimposing Annual Fees in Response to New Card Regs: 2009

Thus, they have extremely questionable redistributional consequences among cardusers.

The Volokh Conspiracy » 2009 » August 2009