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Josh Waters
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Bribes really weren’t necessary in their part of the country. Take any form of growth, from high-end gated communities to low-end shopping centers, fix up a slick brochure filled with half-truths, label it “economic development” with the
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“The people who benefit from the existing system won’t willingly downsize government even if all the customers desert it.”
― The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom
― The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom
“3. We believe that people spend their own money more prudently than they spend other people’s money. So goods and services produced in the competitive marketplace are likely to be produced more efficiently and with more regard for real consumer demand than goods produced by government, and thus we should try to keep as many aspects of life as possible outside the control of government.”
― The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom
― The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom
“When rights become merely legal claims attached to interests and preferences, the stage is set for political and social conflict.”
― The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom
― The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom
“the most important factor in America’s economic future—in raising everyone’s standard of living—is not land, or money, or computers; it’s human talent.”
― The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom
― The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom
“To hurt in any degree the interest of any one order of citizens, for no other purpose but to promote that of some other, is evidently contrary to that justice and equality of treatment which the sovereign owes to all the different orders of his subjects.”40 Changes”
― The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law
― The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law
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