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When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been…
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Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other…
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My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…
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Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
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The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion…
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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
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The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.…
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A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.
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See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only…
— Dave Barry
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If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.
— Ezra Klein
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It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised…
— Milton Friedman
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Well, now, and there's - for every dollar the federal government spends, there's real people on the other side, and so when…
— Franklin Raines
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to…
— Sam Ewing
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When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes,…
— Ron Paul
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The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
— Pat Paulsen
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The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
— Ronald Reagan
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Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would…
— Thomas Sowell
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We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be…
— Ron Paul
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The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.
— Grover Norquist
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There is a role for government, but no matter how much money the government spends, it will never be able to take…
— Marco Rubio
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