Example sentences for: redistributive

How can you use “redistributive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But before too much redistributive social policy gets made around such results, it might be good to add a question to the survey: "Do you have a luxury sound system or a car less than two years old, or a luxury sound system in that car?"

  • Former Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair Alan Blinder and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers Joseph Stiglitz argue that: 1) the estate tax fails as a redistributive measure because rich people have become too good at circumventing it; 2) the considerable effort put into circumventing the tax wastes economic resources; and 3) the tax encourages consumption, instead of savings and investment.

  • Thus "inequity" (or, more accurately, "insufficient redistributive power") is not a good .

  • But given the outrage such excesses generate, advocates would be better off cutting the rich loose and gaining a modicum of redistributive equity for their side of the argument.


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