The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. – Milton Friedman
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. – Milton Friedman
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. – Milton Friedman
If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic. – Milton Friedman