More Quotes by Milton Friedman
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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.
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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.
Society doesn't have values. People have values.
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
