Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. (Henry Hazlitt)

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

Henry Hazlitt

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