You do not need proof for what people want to believe.

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.

If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power.

At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other people's irresponsibility.