You can’t tax your way to a balanced budget without tanking the job creation that actually generates tax receipts. —Matt Kibbe
Tag: Economics
You don’t help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians. —Bob Murphy
I was really blown away when I learned that the Federal Reserve was private and that the government had no kind of oversight over it. That’s what led me to learn about FDR’s confiscation of gold and Nixon taking us off the Gold Standard and it was really mind blowing.
—Vince Vaughn (Tom Woods Show Ep. 1470)
Economics deals with society’s fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen. —Ludwig von Mises
The record of history is absolutely crystal clear. There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. —Milton Friedman
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil. —F.A. Hayek
Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don’t know whom to blame for their calamity. —Walter Williams
Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power. —Peter Schiff
Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job. —Peter Schiff
There are two things that bring people to the ballot box. Hope and Change. We’ve got to get in the face of the public and show them that our policies will enrich their lives. —Joshua Smith