What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is a bad thing today? Well, there is a sense in which that answer is right. There's a sense in which free immigration, in the same sense as we had it before 1914 is not possible today. Why not?
Milton FriedmanIf the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.
Milton FriedmanYou must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
Milton FriedmanEducation spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.
Milton FriedmanSince the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
Milton Friedman