What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The government does not have some magic wand that can 'bring down the cost of health care.' It can buy a smaller… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who thing that they are getting something for nothing, by having government provide what they would otherwise have to buy in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The great allure of government programs in general for many people is that these programs allow decisions to be made without having… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
With various people complaining about "price gouging?... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Securities based on risky mortgages are what toppled financial institutions but it was the government that made the mortgages risky in the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Just as members of American teachers unions often send their own children to private schools, so unionized workers at government-run hospitals in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As taxpayers, we have quietly accepted the fact that our taxes will be spent to pay big bucks for all sorts of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Since the government creates no wealth, it can only transfer the wealth required to hire people. Even if the government creates a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s -… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
“those parts of the British Isles without the advantage of coal deposits or ports, industrialization was as handicapped as in other countries.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy". — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
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