Joel Miller Citas

• Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

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  Government, Groups, Use

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• As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.

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  Government, Quality, Increase

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• Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow.

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  Player, Reality, Government

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• Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

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  Law, Libertarian, Curb

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• El dinero gastado en cumplir una normativa no puede volver a gastarse en marketing o investigación de productos.

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  Marketing, Research, Regulation

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• Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

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  Moving, People, Needs

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• Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.

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  Jumping, Government, Demand

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• Cuanto más hace el gobierno, más posibilidades hay de que sus esfuerzos se inclinen hacia el bien de un grupo concreto, en lugar de hacia el bien común.

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  Government, Effort, Groups

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• To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.

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  Government, People, Should

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• The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

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  Government, Way, Common

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• What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.

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  Meaningful, People, Risk

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• Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

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  Government, Focus, Should

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• With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

  Joel Miller

  War, Thinking, Witch Trials

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• The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.

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  Government, Use, Wealth

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• Piense en la diferencia entre cómo responden su gasolinera local y el congresista a una subida de los precios del petróleo. Uno hace cambiar el cartel de precios del exterior para reflejar la realidad del mercado en cuestión de horas. El otro envía un comunicado de prensa, intenta organizar una audiencia y al final de cantidad no consigue nada. Mientras tanto, la gasolinera ya ha hecho al menos treinta ajustes adicionales a las realidades del mercado, mientras que su político no consigue nada más que medios de comunicación fáciles.

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  Reality, Thinking, Oil

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• Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now.

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  Political, Special, Pressure

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• Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

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  Government, Rivers, Today

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• Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs,
  our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy --
  comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings
  are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.

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  Simple, Strings Attached, Drug

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• Markets help people pursue their happiness more efficiently and effectively. Because they are so effective, markets provide benefits right here and right now, even while government is busy batching the protection of happiness.

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  Gobierno, Personas, Beneficios

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• Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness but instead are designed to secure the particular happiness of various advocacy groups, politicians and bureaucrats.

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  Quilts, Crazy, Law

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• Los cambios y las reformas políticas no suelen favorecer a la población en general. Benefician a quienes están mejor posicionados para organizar y defender sus políticas.

  Joel Miller

  Political, Reform, Benefits

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