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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.

Milton Friedman

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

People Poor Start Wind Yourself
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Food Freedom
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Funny Government Politics Rule Yourself
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.
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Employment Pay People Yourself
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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Greatness Judgement Mistake Oneself Politics Result
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Business Design Game Oneself Responsibility Rule
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.
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Government Harm Limitation
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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