Agreed or disagree Should the government redistribute income (i.e., collect money from the rich in the form of taxes, to give to the poor in the form of social programs such as welfare? 1.) Pros: Increases Opportunities Income redistribution can lower poverty by reducing inequality. For instance, it can reduce social tensions that arise from inequality and allow people in need to devote more resources to human and physical asset accumulation. Conditional cash transfers have been shown to encourage families to send their children to school, improve their nutrition, and monitor their health. Financing these programs through progressive taxation while providing cash transfer incentives to poor households reduces inequality and poverty in the short term and helps these households generate more income over the medium and long term. 2.) Cons: Prevents people from having the drive to work hard in life Transfer payments discourage the recipients from earning income now and from investing in their potential to earn future income. People respond to a reduced cost of frivolous by choosing to be lazy more often. When they can get their current income without earning it, they apply less effort to earn income. When they expect to get future income without earning it, they invest less in education, training, job experience, personal health, migration, and other forms of human capital that enhance their potential to earn income in the future. Hence the society is even poorer, both now and later, than it would have been merely because taxes discourage current production and investment by the taxpayers who fund the transfers. Recipients of transfers tend to become less self-reliant and more dependent on government payments. When people can get support without exercising their own abilities to discover and respond to opportunities for earning income, those abilities atrophy. People forget or never learn in the first place in terms of how to help themselves, and eventually, some of them simply accept their helplessness. 3.) In my own perspective, I can definitely see how income redistribution can make an impact on people in need if it is utilized the right way. However, we know that when something looks extremely good in people's eyes, people tend to exploit it for their own gain. I feel that recipients of transfers would honestly leave a bad message to family members, friends, and most importantly, their kids. To corroborate, those who look at this easily adopt an attitude that they are entitled to such transfers. They have fewer examples of hardworking, self-reliant people in their families or neighborhoods. Because of this, a culture of dependency on government transfers can become pervasive when many people in a neighborhood depend on such transfers for life's essentials or where the recipients are better off its comforts. I would like for the government to help those in need in any type of way possible but having income redistribution can really hurt society as a whole so I will have to disagree with the government providing income redistribution to give to the poor