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“You cannot simultaneously have a welfare state and free immigration.”
— Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman Quotes
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Milton Friedman Quotes
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Daily quotes from economist & Nobel laureate Milton Friedman (1912-2006) 🗽 More quotes: @FAHayekSays, @DailySowell, @MileiSays
- Elon Musk: “It’s like what Milton Friedman said—money is most poorly spent when you’re spending someone else’s money on people you don’t know. That’s the federal government.”
00:00 - “Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax.” — Milton Friedman
- Milton Friedman on government’s four major functions: 1) Ensure national defense 2) Protect citizens from “abuse and coercion by other citizens” 3) Define and uphold private property rights 4) Maintain a judicial system to adjudicate disputes and enforce rules
00:00 - “I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.” — Milton Friedman
- Milton Friedman: “The government doesn’t have any money. Only people have money. The government only gets money by putting its hand in your pocket and taking it out.”
- “Milton Keynes” is apparently AOC’s favorite economist
- “Freedom is not the natural state of mankind. It is a rare and wonderful achievement.” — Milton Friedman
- “When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.” — Milton Friedman
- “You can’t simultaneously have a welfare state and free immigration.” — Milton Friedman
- Javier Milei @JMilei quotes Milton Friedman “A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
- “Asking economists for investment advice is like asking a physicist to fix a broken toilet. Not their field, though sort of related.” — Milton Friedman
- “Human and political freedom has never existed and cannot exist without a large measure of economic freedom.” — Milton Friedman
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