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.
MILTON FRIEDMAN
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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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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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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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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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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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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There’s no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn’t back down.
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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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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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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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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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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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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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There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can 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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