Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.
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Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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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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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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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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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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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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There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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