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“Programs should be judged based on results, not intentions.” —Milton Friedman,

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The capacity to utilize and defend against violence is the crucial variable that alters life at the margin.

Still another likely spur to sterner morality will be the end of entitlements and income redistribution. When the hope of aid for those falling behind is based primarily upon appeals to private individuals and charitable bodies, it will be more important than it has been in the twentieth century that the recipients of charity appear to be morally d

In a static world, a monopolist is just a rent collector.

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Conservative social scientist Charles Murray’s 2006 book In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State argues that a guaranteed income would be likely to make non-college-educated men more attractive marriage partners.