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There's no such thing as a free lunch. -Milton Friedman

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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas.
If capitalism worked as the socialists think an economic system ought to work, and provided a constant equality of living conditions for all, regardless of whether a man was able or not, resourceful or not, diligent or not, thrifty or not, if capitalism put no premiums on resourcefulness and effort and not penalty on idleness or vice, it would produce only an equality of destitution.