"Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum……" — Walter E. Williams
"Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society. The only moral thing to do is to repeal it."
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80 Quotes by Walter E. Williams
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Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.
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Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were…
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Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we…
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Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.
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The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be…
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Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to…
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Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics.…
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In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.
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Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.
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How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to…
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What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making…
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However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In…
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