9 Quotes by Joel Miller about government
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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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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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Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.
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The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.
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As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.
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Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.
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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 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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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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