P. J. O'Rourke - Eat the Rich (1998)

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When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state... This violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.

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Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

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You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.

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The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.

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If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the pverty, not the difference. Wealth is good.

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Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

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How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets rich is simple. The British colonial government turned Hong Kong into an economic miracle by doing nothing.

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Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

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Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.

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People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

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