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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

Milton Friedman

With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
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Determination Difference Oppression Poor Respect Teaching
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
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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Employment Pay People Yourself
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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Forget Freedom Limitation Live Man Misery Politics Time
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
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Drug Government Protection See True War
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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Government People Philosophy Problem Protection
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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Education Government Money Play Poor Role Waste
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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Government Oneself Profit
There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Existence Government Ideal Rule
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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People Poor Start Wind Yourself
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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Change Character Education Quality Unity

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

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