Arriaga proposed a law in which the government would confiscate lands from the local hacienda owners and redistribute it to the local Indian population.

If a state fails to use its full allotment in the three-year period, the federal government redistributes some of the unused money to other states that spent all the money they got.

Initially, the effort, which began with a land-reform law passed in 2001, was met with few complaints as the government redistributed some five million acres of public land to peasants.

The government redistributed the dwellings and tried to save the existing economy, which had been dominated by the Mozambican-Portuguese community.

But whether or not the government can redistribute the money, the private economy will try to do it.

Since 2000, his government has seized and redistributed to landless peasants - sometimes violently - most of the remaining white-owned farms.

Aguirre's government also redistributed some land, encouraged the formation of agricultural settlements, built low-cost housing and schools, and integrated the Marxist parties into the political system.

If the banks implement policies that lead to financial bubbles and panics, a democratic government is equipped with the tools to uncharter and redistribute a banks assets.

Over the past two years, the government has redistributed nearly all of the country's white-owned farmland to about 300,000 poor black families and 50,000 aspiring black commercial farmers.

The Republicans believe that attempts to have government redistribute wealth could destroy the growth that benefits all New Jerseyans.