When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Inflation is a form of tax, a tax that we all collectively must pay. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
More and more people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else-or… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
..either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a dollar of taxation. Once we look at the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The proposal is frequently made that the government ought to assume the risks that are "too great for private industry." This means… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
All subsidy measures, all schemes to redistribute income or to force Peter to support Paul, are one-eyed as well as shortsighted. They… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes,… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support… — 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 Image
“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 Image
Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
