David Boaz
David Boaz
David Boazis the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, an American libertarian think tank...
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The initial reaction was to throw heaps and heaps of money at the problem. While you've had increases in welfare spending over the last 40 years, you've also had increases in the number of unwed mothers, increases in crime.
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Businesses and nonprofits deal with 15% revenue losses all the time.
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The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and tax consumers
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The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.
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Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.
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The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.
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Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.
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Don't hit other people, don't take their stuff and keep your promises.
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We faced a crisis caused by the Federal Reserve, the corporate tax system, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment Act. But the response of many people in Washington was to blame it on capitalism.
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American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.
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The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayers’ money. It is that many agencies perform functions that are not Federal responsibility. The founders delegated to the Government only strictly defined authority in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution. Search the entire Constitution, and you will find no authorization for Congress to subsidize the arts, finance and regulate education or invest tax revenues in energy research.
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People in government are self-interested just like people in business.
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Why are taxpayers in California and Texas and Massachusetts paying for a museum in Indianapolis?