The Only Real Cure For Poverty Is

One Of The Worst Features Of All The Plans For Sharing Wealth And Equalizing Or Guaranteeing Incomes Is That They Lose Sight Of The Conditions And Institution S That Are Necessary To Create Wealth And Income In The First Place.

A Man Who Is Good From Docility, And Not From Stern Self-control, Has No Character.

The State, Of Course, Is Absolutely Indispensable To The Preservation Of Law And Order, And The Promotion Of Peace And Social Cooperation. What Is Unnecessary And Evil, What Abridges The Liberty And Threatens The True Welfare Of The Individual, Is The State That Has Usurped Excessive Powers And Grown Beyond Its Legitimate Function - The Super-state, The Socialist State, The Redistributive State, In Brief, The Ironically Misnamed 'welfare State.'

Some Champions Of Ever-greater Governmental Power And Spending Invent The Theory That The Taxpayers, Left To Themselves, Spend The Money They Have Earned Very Foolishly, On All Sorts Of Trivialities And Rubbish, And That Only The Bureaucrats, By First Seizing It From Them, Will Know How To Spend It Wisely.

The Mounting Burden Of Taxation Not Only Undermines Individual Incentives To Increased Work And Earnings, But In A Score Of Ways Discourages Capital Accumulation And Distorts, Unbalances, And Shrinks Production.