Quotes About Economics

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

Country has to stop giving electricity for free. It is like giving people cocaine.

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.

A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.

Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse.

Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market - contrary to rhetoric.

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

Healthcare should be about market driven solutions, not government mandates.