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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.

Milton Friedman

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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Business Enemy Freedom Man Rival
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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Equality Government Greatness Myself Privilege World
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
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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Force Liberty People Rule Society
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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Drug Government Protection See True War
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
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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Employment Government Limitation Money
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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Employment Law Limitation Money Person Reality Skill
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
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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Freedom Government Liberty Myself Principle
Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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Believe Government Live Way

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.

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