The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads. — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives. — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity.… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads. — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Those who create the wealth naturally want to keep it and devote it to their own purposes. Those who wish to expropriate it look… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives. — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power. — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians. Many Israelis prefer building… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains. — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the benevolent state is our protector and that without it wed be at the… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions. — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
