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" Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. "
Thomas Sowell
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" What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. "
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" Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. "
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" People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes. "
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" Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing. "
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" Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. "
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" Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. "
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" The real minimum wage is zero. "
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" The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. "
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" All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts. "
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" You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody. "
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" It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. "
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" As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. "
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" If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. "
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" Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions. "
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" Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. "
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" You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. "
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" Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. "
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" People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. "
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" The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction. "
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" Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. "
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" Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. "
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" Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help. "
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" Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses. "
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" If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say. "
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" Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention. "
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" Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. "
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" What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. "
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" People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. "
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" Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. "
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" Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved. "
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