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"Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation."
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"CAPITALISM: If everything worked without need of repair, upgrade or replacement, then peaceful minds and prosperity would prevail among the masses rather than just the few who control markets."
"Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job."
"Bling" is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence...the haves' bleeding the have-nots'."
"So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded on the ignorance or incapacity of the opposite person. . . . It is therefore a science founded on nescience. . . . This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience. . . . It is therefore peculiarly and alone science of darkness."
"We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export."
"An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor."
"The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year."
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"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."
"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."
"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."
"A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government."
"The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people."
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