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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.

Milton Friedman

I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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Drugs Illegal Kill Myself People Right Support
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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Funny Government Politics Rule Yourself
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Destruction Hands Politics Power
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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Civilization Government Greatness Science
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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Country Freedom Himself Patriot
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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People Poor Start Wind Yourself
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
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
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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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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Dream Money Politics Technique Vote
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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