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One of the biggest, and one of the oldest, taxes is inflation. Governments have stolen their people’s resources this way, not just for centuries, but for thousands of years. view tweet
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Some people seem to think that, if life is not fair, then the answer is to turn more of the nation's resources over to politicians — who will, of course, then spend these resources in ways that increase the politicians' chances of getting reelected. view tweet
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A $100 bill would buy less in 1998 than a $20 bill would buy in the 1960s. This means that anyone who kept his money in a safe over those years would have lost 80 percent of its value, because no safe can keep your money safe from politicians who control the printing presses. view tweet
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Inflation is a quiet but effective way for the government to transfer resources from the people to itself, without raising taxes. view tweet
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There are few ideas more potent than the notion that all your problems are caused by other people and their unfairness to you. That was the royal road to unbridled power for Hitler, Lenin, and Mao—which is to say, millions of human beings paid with their lives for believing it. view tweet
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Wherever you get enough far left people in power, you can find a similar willingness to force everyone into collectivist conformity at all costs. view tweet
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The most successful dictators of the 20th century — Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mao — all used this formula and now class warfare politicians here are doing the same. view tweet
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Those who want to take our money and gain power over us have discovered the magic formula: Get us envious or angry at others and we will surrender, in installments, not only our money but our freedom. view tweet
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What can any society hope to gain by having some babies in that society born into the world with a priori grievances against other babies born into that same society on the same day? view tweet
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. view tweet
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The assumption that spending more of the taxpayers' money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. view tweet
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Let’s face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are—and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart. view tweet
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Much confusion comes from judging economic policies by the goals they proclaim rather than the incentives they create. view tweet
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People who call differences “inequities” and achievements “privilege” leave social havoc in their wake, while feeling noble about siding with the less fortunate. It would never occur to them that they have any responsibility for the harm done to both blacks and Asian Americans. view tweet
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Endless repetition does not make something true. view tweet

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It is a painful irony that people who are promoting the make-believe equality of “inclusion” and “diversity” in schools are attacking charter schools that are producing the real equality of educational achievement.

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