If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as …

- John Stossel

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

- John Stossel

When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort

- John Stossel

Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important t…

- John Stossel

Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?

- John Stossel

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

- John Stossel

What happened under communism - and increasingly, is happening in America, as Joseph Sobran put it: 'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'G…

- John Stossel

What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was already $170,000 in debt. You'd tell him…

- John Stossel

What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people…

- John Stossel