Quote #40

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

More from Milton Friedman

  1. The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
  2. We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work.
  3. The business of business is business.
  4. What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.
  5. Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
  6. What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?!
  7. If an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallac…
  8. If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.

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