“If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.”
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“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
― Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays
― Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays
“What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on the basis of their transient location in the income stream. If most Americans do not stay in the same broad income bracket for even a decade, their repeatedly changing 'class' makes class itself a nebulous concept. Yet the intelligentsia are habituated, if not addicted, to seeing the world in class terms.”
― The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
― The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
― The Thomas Sowell Reader
― The Thomas Sowell Reader
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