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The worst discrimination against black people in the United States was the introduction of slavery. Short of murder and torture, slavery is the greatest possible violation of people’s rights. It is essentially legalized kidnapping.

— David R. Henderson The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey (2002)

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The government’s monopoly is what has allowed it to produce so bad a product for so long.

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The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.

One thing we know from centuries of history is that if the government has revenue to spend, it will spend it.

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Unfortunately, not content to enforce its monopoly power over what new drugs get produced, the FDA also seeks to limit doctor’s uses of legal drugs for uses not specified on the label.

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British author Thomas Carlyle called economics ‘the dismal science’ because the free-market economists around him were strongly opposed to slavery.

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