The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
LUDWIG VON MISESFreedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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