Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.
MILTON FRIEDMANEvery economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.
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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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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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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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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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I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
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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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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
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