Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
MILTON FRIEDMANA minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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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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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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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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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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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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