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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. "
Thomas Sowell
People
Tax
Taxes
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" It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. "
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" Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more. "
Thomas Sowell
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" The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. "
Thomas Sowell
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" All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. "
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" The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. "
Thomas Sowell
Favor
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" Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society. "
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Free
Society
Resistance
" If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. "
Thomas Sowell
Media
Business
People
" Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. "
Thomas Sowell
Attention
Facts
Mistakes
" 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
Pay
Day
Elections
" You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. "
Thomas Sowell
Understand
Will
You
" All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. "
Thomas Sowell
Warning
Forget
Statistics
" Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. "
Thomas Sowell
Want
Government
Life
" Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. "
Thomas Sowell
More
Ingenuity
Budget
" The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. "
Thomas Sowell
Science
People
Growing
" Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is. "
Thomas Sowell
Liberals
Suit
Strong
" If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. "
Thomas Sowell
Be Prepared
You
Civilization
" Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. "
Thomas Sowell
Brainy
Seem
Been
" The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way. "
Thomas Sowell
Way
Someone
Most
" 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. "
Thomas Sowell
Gender
Green
Race
" One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. "
Thomas Sowell
Most
Political
Time
" Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. "
Thomas Sowell
People
Help
Immigration
" The real minimum wage is zero. "
Thomas Sowell
Minimum Wage
Real
Zero
" A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely. "
Thomas Sowell
Than
Demand
Somebody
" Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. "
Thomas Sowell
Born
Generation
Late
" Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. "
Thomas Sowell
Telling
Other
Feel
" 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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Steel
World
Mean
" Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. "
Thomas Sowell
Been
Life
Who
" Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. "
Thomas Sowell
Data
Strong
Laws
" The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. "
Thomas Sowell
Political
Ideas
Find
" The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up. "
Thomas Sowell
Loss
Poor
Tax