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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When ...more

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Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the legally permitted prices, but also higher than they ...more

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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people...more

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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors...more

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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

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It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation A...more

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Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resour...more

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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not requi...more

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A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of "inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose "inabili...more

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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

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Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more...more