If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.
MILTON FRIEDMANI’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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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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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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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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The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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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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See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
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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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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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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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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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