Governments redistribute income through:?

Question

Governments redistribute income through:

a. taxation policies.

b. expenditure policies.

c. establishment and protection of property rights.

d. all of the above

Answer 1

d. all of the above

"a" - progressive income taxes

"b" -  social security formally is part of gov expenditures (transfers), also subsidies and poverty programs.

Answer 2

The answer is D.

Taxation is how the government gets income and expenditure is how they spend it (for example, on poverty programs).  Establishing property rights allows people to keep what they earn (rather than everyone stealing everything), so presumably this redistributes income to those who earn it, rather than those that can steal well.  

Answer 3

I would say D, I do business rather than economics but it sounds as if D would be the answer.

Answer 4

The answer is a, taxation policies.  

The establishment and protection of property rights has nothing to do with income redistribution.