I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
MILTON FRIEDMANInflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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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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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.
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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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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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You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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