The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. – Thomas Sowell
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. – Thomas Sowell
Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns. – Thomas Sowell
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. – Thomas Sowell