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Robert Higgs Quotes: Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off as a result.
         

Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off as a result.


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By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.



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Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.



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True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.



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Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.



Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.





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