Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
THOMAS SOWELLSince this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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