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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. View quote
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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. View quote
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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. (Thomas Sowell)
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. View quote
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. View quote
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The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. View quote
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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. View quote
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Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? View quote
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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. (Thomas Sowell)
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. View quote
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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. View quote
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. View quote
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. View quote
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