15 Quotes by Arnold Kling

Anyone who believes that we can afford collectively what we cannot afford individually is delusional.

When the government pays, health care’s lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps.

I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the earnings of top business leaders and the salaries of academics and journalists.

After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves.

I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of ‘marketing’ their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling government solutions.

The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.

Phelps has given us a clear warning of the dangers of corporatism. I hope that more people hear and heed the warning.