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- No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own…
- Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something for nothing, that…
- Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are…
- Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop…
- Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.
- The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
- A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to…
- Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world…
- What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he…
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