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“I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.”

— Milton Friedman

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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

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There's no such thing as a free lunch.

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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

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So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

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