1222: Matt Kibbe – You Can’t Tax Your Way to Prosperity

You can’t tax your way to a balanced budget without tanking the job creation that actually generates tax receipts. —Matt Kibbe
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You can’t tax your way to a balanced budget without tanking the job creation that actually generates tax receipts. —Matt Kibbe
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You can’t tax your way to a balanced budget without tanking the job creation that actually generates tax receipts. —Matt Kibbe
You can’t tax your way to a balanced budget without tanking the job creation that actually generates tax receipts. —Matt Kibbe

You can’t tax your way to a balanced budget without tanking the job creation that actually generates tax receipts. —Matt Kibbe

1193: Peter Schiff – Minimum Wage Laws Make it Harder to Find Work

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
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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
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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
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

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

1127: Ludwig von Mises – Mass Unemployment not Caused by the Free Market

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. —Ludwig von Mises (The Theory of Money and Credit)

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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. —Ludwig von Mises (The Theory of Money and Credit)

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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. —Ludwig von Mises (The Theory of Money and Credit)

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. —Ludwig von Mises (The Theory of Money and Credit)

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. —Ludwig von Mises (The Theory of Money and Credit)

1109: David Nolan – LP Founder on the Libertarian Party

We have unfortunately created a little class of mini bureaucrats who are more concerned with keeping their jobs and perpetuating the institution as an institution and raising money than they are with spreading the message. When we started out our goal was to spread the word, it was sort of evangelical, to spread the word of liberty out to the world at large and we had people like Murray Rothbard and John Hospers and many other distinguished thinkers of that era involved in the party. Now we’re down to the level of people who are I think for the most part well intended, but when compared to those men are several orders down the intellectual scale and they are absorbed with minutia they are concerned with budgets, they are afraid to say anything that might scare people, that might keep people from voting for us. So it’s become a very timid organization in the past 6 or 8 years. —David Nolan

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We have unfortunately created a little class of mini bureaucrats who are more concerned with keeping their jobs and perpetuating the institution as an institution and raising money than they are with spreading the message. When we started out our goal was to spread the word, it was sort of evangelical, to spread the word of liberty out to the world at large and we had people like Murray Rothbard and John Hospers and many other distinguished thinkers of that era involved in the party. Now we’re down to the level of people who are I think for the most part well intended, but when compared to those men are several orders down the intellectual scale and they are absorbed with minutia they are concerned with budgets, they are afraid to say anything that might scare people, that might keep people from voting for us. So it’s become a very timid organization in the past 6 or 8 years. —David Nolan

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We have unfortunately created a little class of mini bureaucrats who are more concerned with keeping their jobs and perpetuating the institution as an institution and raising money than they are with spreading the message. When we started out our goal was to spread the word, it was sort of evangelical, to spread the word of liberty out to the world at large and we had people like Murray Rothbard and John Hospers and many other distinguished thinkers of that era involved in the party. Now we’re down to the level of people who are I think for the most part well intended, but when compared to those men are several orders down the intellectual scale and they are absorbed with minutia they are concerned with budgets, they are afraid to say anything that might scare people, that might keep people from voting for us. So it’s become a very timid organization in the past 6 or 8 years. —David Nolan

1085: Thomas Sowell – 25% Unemployment and Great Depression

People say the government had to intervene during the Great Depression because of the
25% unemployment. What they don't understand is there wasn’t a 25% unemployment UNTIL the government intervened. —Thomas Sowell

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People say the government had to intervene during the Great Depression because of the
25% unemployment. What they don't understand is there wasn’t a 25% unemployment UNTIL the government intervened. —Thomas Sowell

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People say the government had to intervene during the Great Depression because of the 25% unemployment. What they don’t understand is there wasn’t a 25% unemployment UNTIL the government intervened. —Thomas Sowell

1034: Henry Hazlitt – Every Public Job Destroys One Private Job

For every public job created, one private job was destroyed. —Henry Hazlitt

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For every public job created, one private job was destroyed. —Henry Hazlitt

1028: Henry Hazlitt – How to Increase Wages

Real wages come out of production, not out of government decrees. The best way to raise wages, therefore, is to raise marginal labor productivity. 

The more the individual worker produces, the more he increases the wealth of the whole community. The more he produces, the more his services are worth to consumers, and hence to employers. And the more he is worth to employers, the more he will be paid. —Henry Hazlitt

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Real wages come out of production, not out of government decrees. The best way to raise wages, therefore, is to raise marginal labor productivity. The more the individual worker produces, the more he increases the wealth of the whole community. The more he produces, the more his services are worth to consumers, and hence to employers. And the more he is worth to employers, the more he will be paid. —Henry Hazlitt

1026: Henry Hazlitt – Government Spending Destroys Jobs

For every dollar that the government spends on public works one less dollar was spent by the taxpayers to meet their own wants and for every public job created one private job was destroyed. —Henry Hazlitt

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For every dollar that the government spends on public works one less dollar was spent by the taxpayers to meet their own wants and for every public job created one private job was destroyed. —Henry Hazlitt