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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.

Milton Friedman

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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Employment Goodness Job People
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
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.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Change Character Education Quality Unity
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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Funny Government Politics Rule Yourself
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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Government Money Save
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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Believe Government Live Way
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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Hurt Law People Reality Support Tragedy
The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
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Freedom Government Greatness Hate Religious
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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People Poor Start Wind Yourself
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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Myself Possible Reason Support
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty

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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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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