Would-be income guarantors ignore or despise the capitalistic system that makes their dreams dreamable and gives their redistribute-the-income proposals whatever plausibility they have.

Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment in private enterprise, on the other hand, promotes capitalism, production, independence, and self-reliance.

There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

Inflation is not only unnecessary for economic growth. As long as it exists it is the enemy of economic growth.

Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do so.