Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else's parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds.
Milton FriedmanOur emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our courts from having to fight losing battles against drug use will enable their energies and facilities to be devoted more fully to combating other forms of crime.
Milton FriedmanIf you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
Milton FriedmanOnly government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Milton FriedmanTo the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.
Milton FriedmanIf you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The people who were here benefited. The people who came benefited. Because nobody would come unless he, or his family, thought he would do better here than he would elsewhere. And, the new immigrants provided additional resources, provided additional possibilities for the people already here. So everybody can mutually benefit.
Milton Friedman