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With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.

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
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
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Freedom Greatness Mindset Ourselves Plant
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 great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
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Freedom Government Greatness Hate Religious
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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Depression Employment Government Greatness Management
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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Funny Government Politics Rule 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
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
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself

With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.

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With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.

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