I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
MILTON FRIEDMANYou must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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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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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
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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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The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Every 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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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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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 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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A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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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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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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