redistributive

The authors argue for some redistributive policies, like increased financial aid for post-secondary education.

Real conservatives stand outside this conversation: They believe that virtually no redistributive spending is justified.

Further, Obamacare is redistributive, as Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic and Tom Edsall at the New York Times acknowledge.

The redistributive impulse that is Obamacare wreaked havoc in the 2010 midterms and may do so again.

But he is dead wrong to suggest that government is simply redistributive or worse, a dead-weight drag on the economy.