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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.

Milton Friedman

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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Depression Employment Government Greatness Management
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
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Dream Money Politics Technique Vote
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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Argument Opponents Right Understand View Yourself
The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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Avoid Power Problem Rule World
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
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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Force Liberty People Rule Society
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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Myself Possible Reason Support
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Destruction Hands Politics Power
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule

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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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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