Quote #42
What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.
More from Milton Friedman
- We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work.
- 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?!
- We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.
- If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
- The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
- Everywhere, and at all times, economic progress has meant far more to the poor than to the rich.
- The business of business is business.
- Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest. The benef…