"Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty,……" — Robert Higgs
"Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people."
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Robert Higgs
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22 Quotes by Robert Higgs
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Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their…
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...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political…
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When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
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In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the…
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It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual…
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Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever…
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In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention…
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True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.
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Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession…
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Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.
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The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be…
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H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however,…
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