Quotes About Economics

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.

If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

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In those years from 1893 to 1896, Congress was thrown into turmoil by the demand for "the free coinage of silver at sixteen to one" when the commercial ratio was about thirty to one.

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

The great bulk of Marshall Plan funds returned to the United States, or never left, being paid directly to American corporations to purchase American goods. The US Agency for International Development (AID) stated in 1999: 'The principal beneficiary of America's foreign assistance programs has always been the United States.

Given time to attend to their own affairs in exchange for subsisting themselves, slaves gardened, tended to barnyard animals, and hunted and fished on their own. Occasionally, they manufactured small items and sold them to their owners, neighbors, or other slaves." Money was not the issue. The correlation to examine was between work and power.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.

India's transition to colonialism took place under a for-profit corporation, which existed entirely for the purpose of enriching its investors.