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Well, how do those things happen today?

• blowski 8y ago
  A combination of tax and regulation to redistribute income, cover the cost of negative externalities, and encourage activities with a positive externality. I’m grossly oversimplifying, and obviously it’s neither 100% efficient nor effective. I’m genuinely intrigued by distributism, so please don’t think I’m making snarky comments.
  • platz 8y ago
    Since capitalism does those things in an ad-hoc way, I don't see why it would have to be any different under distributionism; if anything it would most likely be a non-change; it certainly doesn't seem to preclude those activities - my impression is you have to implement some form of mixed economy no matter what backing ideology you try to guide with.
    • blowski 8y ago
      So distributism isn’t opposed to tax? Could the government then subsidise some types of work that it wanted to encourage, or tax those it wanted to discourage?
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