A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
MILTON FRIEDMANYou know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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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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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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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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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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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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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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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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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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