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The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.

Milton Friedman

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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Civilization Government Greatness Science
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
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.
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Employment Government Limitation Money
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
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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Drug Government Protection See True War
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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Dream Money Politics Technique Vote
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
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
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
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom 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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Change Character Education Quality Unity
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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Depression Employment Government Greatness Management
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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Employment Law Limitation Money Person Reality Skill

The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.

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