We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ... because… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What works for Sweden wouldn't work for France or Germany or Italy. In a small state, you can reach outside for many… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If the US government spends 40 percent of the nation's income, as it does through either borrowing or taxes, that income is… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger…Every… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. The reason… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
To really understand something you've got to reduce it to its principles. — Milton Friedman Copy Share
It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
“The people in one district can choose not to reelect their member of Congress, but that will not change the composition of the government… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others. — Milton Friedman Copy Share
What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?! — Milton Friedman Copy Share
World trade depends on differences among countries, not similarities. Different countries are in different stages of development. It is appropriate for them to have… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior. — Milton Friedman Copy Share
It is most attractive about the US to people and countries with wealth is that it can provide security, insurance really, against political instability.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
Hong Kong is the bellwether. If the Chinese stick to their agreement to let Hong Kong go its own path, then China will also… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
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