The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps,… — 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
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
In the wake of the housing debacle in California, more people are buying less expensive homes, making bigger down payments, and staying… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
No segment of the population has lost more by the agendas of the liberal constituencies of the Democratic Party than the black… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way… — 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
