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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.

Thomas Sowell

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.

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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.

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