If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.
MILTON FRIEDMAN
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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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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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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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 excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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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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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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