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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. "
Thomas Sowell
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" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "
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" Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right? "
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" Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. "
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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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" 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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" Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. "
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" The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow. "
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" Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. "
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" Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies. "
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" It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. "
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" Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency. "
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" Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. "
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" It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.' "
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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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" The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. "
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" Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. "
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" Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. "
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