Question

Cadmia, a small island nation, recently revised its income-tax law. The new law sought to increase taxes on wealthy corporations and citizens with higher incomes. Surprisingly, everyone responded positively to the tax revision as they believed that it will decrease inequality in the nation. In this scenario, the people of Cadmia have demonstrated support for:

Answer 1

The correct answer is distributive justice

Step-by-step explanation:

Distributive justice is, for Aristotle, fair or correct regarding the allocation of assets in a society.

The principles of distributive justice are normative principles designed to guide the allocation of benefits and burdens of economic activity. He is often contrasted with retributive justice, which focuses on the proportionality of the results and consequences, and with procedural justice which has to do with the justice of the processes, such as the administration of the law. The most prominent contemporary theorist of distributive justice is the philosopher John Rawls.