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Child labor didn’t disappear because of regulation first. It disappeared because capitalism raised productivity and incomes enough that families no longer needed their children to work to survive. Before that wealth existed, banning child labor wouldn’t have sent kids to…


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The government can’t run out of dollars, but everyone else can run out of real resources. Printing money doesn’t create food, housing, labor, or energy. It just reallocates claims on what already exists. A carpenter can’t build infinite houses just because inches are infinite.…

"it (government) can't run out of dollars any more than a carpenter can run out of inches." -Stephanie Kelton

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-Stephanie Kelton


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Leftist: Wealth inequality is a problem because it lets the wealthy lobby the government for favoritism. Response: Then strip the government of the power to grant favoritism. Limit it to enforcing equality under the law. Leftist: No. I want the government to favor me and my…


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It’s willfully oblivious to reality to claim that any single group “controls the media.” Fifty years ago, that argument might have had surface plausibility. There was no internet. A handful of television networks and newspapers shaped what most people saw and heard. That world…


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Why do Americans tend to think more clearly than the French? Thomas Sowell breaks it down.


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“There has been direct and causal connection between the increasing exaltation of the state and the increasing demoralization of society.” - Felix Morley


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Norway drills the North Sea & gets richer. Britain bans drilling, taxes the industry to death, sacks 1,000 workers a month, then buys the same oil & gas from Norway. Same seabed. Same reservoirs. It’s the dumbest act of economic self-harm imaginable. archive.is/olBvb

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Britain bans drilling, taxes the industry to death, sacks 1,000 workers a month, then buys the same oil & gas from Norway.

Same seabed. Same reservoirs.
It’s the dumbest act of economic self-harm imaginable. 

archive.is/olBvb

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“The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument.” — Milton Friedman

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— Milton Friedman

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Calling health care a “right” is not an elevation of morality. It’s a demand that someone else be forced to provide it. There’s no such thing as a “right” to goods or services that require human effort, time, skill, or property. Rights protect actions, not outcomes. They protect…

Health care should be a right, not a privilege. That shouldn’t be a hot take in the wealthiest country in the history of the world.



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Thank you Britain 🇬🇧, for sacrificing your economy to save the planet. _

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“Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.” — Milton Friedman

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— Milton Friedman

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“The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument.” — Milton Friedman

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— Milton Friedman

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“It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.” — Friedrich Hayek

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— Friedrich Hayek

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“Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary.” — Friedrich Hayek


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I am sick and tired of being called or considered a ‘democracy’! This just tells you how ignorant and truly uneducated the media and many politicians are. We are a Constitutional Republic. That is how our founding fathers made this country!

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This just tells you how ignorant and truly uneducated the media and many politicians are.

We are a Constitutional Republic. That is how our founding fathers made this country!

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A beautiful film from the dawn of the 20th century. People stroll along the grand Blackpool North Pier in their Sunday best. Incredibly this was filmed over 120 years ago, in 1903.


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“If I were rich, I would have a plaque made up, and sent to every judge in America, bearing a statement made by Adam Smith more than two and a half centuries ago: ‘Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.’” — Thomas Sowell


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