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Government social welfare programs and redistribution
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View Full Quote"That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the people who come in do not qualify for welfare, they don't qualify for social security, they don't qualify for the other myriad of benefits that we pour out from our left pocket to our right pocket. So long as they don't qualify they migrate to jobs. They take jobs that most residents of this country are unwilling to take. They provide employers with the kind of workers that they cannot get. They're hard workers, they're good workers, and they are clearly better off."
View Full Quote"You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state."
View Full Quote"If you tax people who work, and you pay people who don't work, do not be surprised if you have a lot of people not working."
"The basic principle and the ultimate results of all statist doctrines are the same: dictatorship and destruction. The rest is only a matter of time."
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View Full QuoteView Full Quote"Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money."
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The Political Economy of the New Left: An Outsider's View
Written after a sabbatical spent observing the American New Left on university campuses, Lindbeck's short, sharp critique dissects the movement's e...
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