Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
MILTON FRIEDMANI am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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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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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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There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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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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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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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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A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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