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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.

Milton Friedman

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
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Dream Money Politics Technique Vote
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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Business Enemy Freedom Man Rival
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Education World Yourself
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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Country Freedom Himself Patriot
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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Hurt Law People Reality Support Tragedy
The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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Education Government Money Play Poor Role Waste
The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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Employment Goodness Job People
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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Greatness Judgement Mistake Oneself Politics Result
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True

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