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 problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think… — 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
[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and… — 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
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
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
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
However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail'… — 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
High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they… — 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
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
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law. — 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 wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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
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
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. — 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
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
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
Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make… — 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 Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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