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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.

Milton Friedman

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Business Government Law Politics
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
The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Force Liberty People Rule Society
There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Government Harm Limitation
What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
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Fundamental Principle Simplicity Understand Writing
I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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Drugs Illegal Kill Myself People Right Support
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Company Money Profit Responsibility
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
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 government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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Genrosity Government Money Power
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.

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