Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
MILTON FRIEDMANMost economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
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I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
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The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
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You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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