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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Milton Friedman

I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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Equality Government Greatness Myself Privilege World
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
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Fundamental Principle Simplicity Understand Writing
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
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
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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Government Oneself Profit
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
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
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
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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 government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Bad Government Liberty Problem

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

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