The Free Market and its Enemies

Thomas Costanzo

“Highly graduated taxation realizes most completely the supreme anger of democracy.   Creating a state of things in which one class imposes on another burdens which it is not asked to share, and impels the state into vast schemes of extravagance, under the belief that the whole costs will be thrown upon others.”  W.E.H. Lecky   “Here in the united States, we’ve seen failure of mass programs of redistribution and the financial crisis to which they give rise.  And yet many continue to defend and promote them.”  Robert A. Sirico   “Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced.  The consumers do that.” Ludwig Von Mises   “To enslave a people, give them money they did not earn.” James Cook   “What… can a government do to help the poor?  The only answer is the libertarian answer:  Get ot of the way.”  Murray N. Rothbard   “To assign to everybody his p