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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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