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.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe 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.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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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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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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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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Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
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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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There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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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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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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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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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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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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