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

Milton Friedman

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
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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Change Character Education Quality Unity
The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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Employment Goodness Job People
The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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Genrosity Government Money Power
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
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
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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Government Money Save
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
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Direction Government Improvement Philosophy
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
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
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
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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Devotion Energy Government Management Politics
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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Education Government Money Play Poor Role Waste
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
The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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Choice Destruction Liberty Necessary
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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Business Freedom Important Place Profit
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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Equality Freedom Rule Society
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
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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Exercise Freedom Liberty People Politics Power
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
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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Hurt Law People Reality Support Tragedy

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