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

Milton Friedman

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
The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
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Difference Freedom Independence Word
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
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
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
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
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
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
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Existence Government Ideal Rule
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
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
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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Forget Freedom Limitation Live Man Misery Politics Time
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
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

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