The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One of the worst features of all the plans for sharing wealth and equalizing or guaranteeing incomes is that they lose sight… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The quickest and surest way to production, prosperity, and economic growth is through private enterprise. The best way for governments to encourage… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. It is the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The first (lesson) which we meet again and again in history, is that once the dole or similar relief programs are introduced,… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share
“This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept their proposals… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share
When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share
“The analysis of our illustrations has taught us another incidental lesson. This is that, when we study the effects of various proposals, not merely… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share
There is a profound contrast between the effects of foreign aid and of voluntary private investment: foreign aid goes from government to government. It… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share
Multiculturalism means your kid has to learn some wretched tribal dirge for the school holiday concert instead of getting to sing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share
It is possible to increase paper-money income to any amount by debasing the currency. But real income can only be increased by working harder… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share
Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share
“the desperate need to get back to normal housing and other living conditions stimulated increased efforts. But this does not mean that property destruction… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages,… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share
“It is a misconception to think of the function or result of machines as primarily one of creating jobs . The real result of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share
A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share
A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting economic calculations… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share
