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Posted on 03/24/2016 6:22:43 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie
10) "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
9) "I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
8) "The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."
7) "When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union -- like public housing in the United States -- look decrepit within a year or two of their construction..."
6) "There is all the difference in the world, however, between two kinds of assistance through government that seem superficially similar: first, 90 percent of us agreeing to impose taxes on ourselves in order to help the bottom 10 percent, and second, 80 percent voting to impose taxes on the top 10 percent to help the bottom 10 percent -- William Graham Sumner's famous example of B and C decided what D shall do for A. The first may be wise or unwise, an effective or ineffective way to help the disadvantaged -- but it is consistent with belief in both equality of opportunity and liberty. The second seeks equality of outcome and is entirely antithetical to liberty."
5) "When the United States was formed in 1776, it took 19 people on the farm to produce enough food for 20 people. So most of the people had to spend their time and efforts on growing food. Today, it's down to 1% or 2% to produce that food. Now just consider the vast amount of supposed unemployment that was produced by that. But there wasn't really any unemployment produced. What happened was that people who had formerly been tied up working in agriculture were freed by technological developments and improvements to do something else. That enabled us to have a better standard of living and a more extensive range of products."
4) "Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property."
3) "Inflation is taxation without legislation."
2) "The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -- whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade throughout the world. The consumer is protected from being exploited by one seller by the existence of another seller from whom he can buy and who is eager to sell to him. Alternative sources of supply protect the consumer far more effectively than all the Ralph Naders of the world."
1) "(T)he supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If all we want are jobs, we can create any number -- for example, have people dig holes and then fill them up again, or perform other useless tasks. Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want. Our real objective is not just jobs but productive jobs -- jobs that will mean more goods and services to consume."
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Several of these, for example #6, are so far beyond the comprehension ability of the average liberal American, that they might as well be written in Klingon.
And some are subversive to the current and impending regimes.
;-)
:: 2) “The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly — whether private or governmental ::
I think we may have lost sight of the fact that, in this day*&age, government is the only entity that can “legally” be a monopoly.
And, that government will work diligently to be the monopoly of all business/industry in the US.
Great quotes! Thanks for posting.
Pluswhich, many here think I’m named after Milton Berle.
T.Rump needs to be reminded of saying number 1.
I love Milton Friedman, his videos online are great to watch. Everyone should watch, what a great teacher.
My all time favorite is “There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
A lot of wisdom in those quotes.
:)
Well, I’d say these things have all been trumped.
#2 is my favorite.
I’m more partial to Anna Schwartz personally.
Friedman wrote, "If there isn't any, no one gets any."
>> T.Rump needs to be reminded of saying number 1 <<
Yeah, but be extra careful not to tell the supporters of Mr. Trump, because they will then say that Milton Friedman, like Tom Sowell and Walter Williams, is yet another GOPe hack and RINO shill.
And I'd say that these eternal truths will hold fast, long after Mr. Trump and yours truly are gone from this earthly sphere.
Yea verily, the combined demagoguery of Karl Marx, Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders shall not prevail against them.
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