Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
MILTON FRIEDMANIf you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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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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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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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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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.
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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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Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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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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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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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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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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