Consumers Quote by Walter E. Williams

“You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil.” quote by Walter E. Williams — Download Open image

“You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil.”

Walter E. Williams

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Wal-Mart has become the whipping boy for political demagogues, unions and anti-traders. I suggest that they have the wrong target… Wal-Mart exists and prospers because tens of millions of Americans find Wal-Mart to be a suitable source of goods and services… unions and anti-traders should direct their outrage and condemnation at the tens of millions of Americans who shop at…

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