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“Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.”

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Milton Friedman

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Government

Milton Friedman

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

Government

Milton Friedman

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

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Milton Friedman

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

Finance