Joel Miller Quotes

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The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

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

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

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

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Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.

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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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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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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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Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

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

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