When government taxes and regulates, what is seen are the visible effects of government contracts, grants, and subsidies. What is not seen… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
The consumer gets the best deal when the product is cheapest, and the product is cheapest when people can freely compete in the market… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
When government taxes and regulates, what is seen are the visible effects of government contracts, grants, and subsidies. What is not seen are all… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation. — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve. — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create. — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians. Sherman himself… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs. — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Only in situations where competition is illegal will competition not act naturally to bring the best product at the lowest price to the consumer. — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in. — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed. — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
