Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.
MILTON FRIEDMANInflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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There’s no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn’t back down.
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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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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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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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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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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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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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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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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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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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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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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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