“Talk about how various people have been “winners” in “the lottery of life” or have things that others don’t have just because… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation... — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Financial institutions are not being bailed out as a favor to them or their stockholders. In fact, stockholders have come out worse… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Securities based on risky mortgages are what toppled financial institutions but it was the government that made the mortgages risky in the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“financial transactions that produced both wealth and unpopularity.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Since the government creates no wealth, it can only transfer the wealth required to hire people. Even if the government creates a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more… — 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
The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In other words, it is the amount of money that colleges and universities can get—from tuition, endowment income, donations, etc.—which determines how… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise,… — 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
