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The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be taken for granted. The real question concerns the proper means of achieving it. And in trying to answer this we must never lose sight of a few elementary truisms. We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

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Government welfarism, with its ever-increasing army of pensioners and other beneficiaries, is fatally easy to launch and fatally easy to extend, but …

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..either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a dollar of taxation. Once we look at the matter. In th…

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The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare scheme…

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Inflation is not only unnecessary for economic growth. As long as it exists it is the enemy of economic growth.

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A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

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Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have ea…

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When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, sta…

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When any welfare scheme is being proposed, its political sponsors always dwell on what a generous and compassionate government should pay to Paul; th…

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The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit…

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