Quote #41
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work.
More from Milton Friedman
- We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.
- What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.
- The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
- 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?!
- The business of business is business.
- If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
- Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
- Everywhere, and at all times, economic progress has meant far more to the poor than to the rich.