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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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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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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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
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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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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Government Harm Limitation
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
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
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.

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The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
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Freedom Government Greatness Hate Religious
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

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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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Devotion Energy Government Management Politics
The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.

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The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
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Difference Freedom Independence Word
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

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The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Destruction Politics Power
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.

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When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
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Direction Government Improvement Philosophy
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

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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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People Poor Start Wind
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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Equality Freedom Rule Society
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

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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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