1. Governments never learn. Only people learn.2. Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
3. Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
4. The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
5. President Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."... Neither half of that statement expresses a relation between the citizen and his government that is worthy of the ideals of free men in a free society. "What your country can do for you" implies that the government is the patron, the citizen the ward. "What you can do for your country" assumes that the government is the master, the citizen the servant.
6. We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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