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Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. Douglas Casey. My restatement of this is: "Foreign aid is the giving to the privileged class in a poor country, the money from the the working class of a rich country."
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Ronald Reagan
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. Thomas Sowell
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National saving is the only way a country can have its capital and own it too. Models of the economic growth process identify national saving as one of the key policy variables in influencing a nation's living standards in the long run. Edward Gramlich, Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill
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The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive sector. Henry Hazlitt
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In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker. Frederic Bastiat
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Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person ever give you a job? Dr. Laurence J. Peter
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The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain
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Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are. U.S. Senator Phil Gramm
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I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple. Were we directed from Washington when to sow, when to reap, we should soon want bread. Thomas Jefferson
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (as told by an expert in crushing oppression)
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If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. P.J. O'Rourke
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There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder. Ronald Reagan
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