Background Image
I can spend somebody else's money on somebody else. and if i spend somebody else's money on somebody else, i'm not concerned about how much it is, and i'm not concerned about what i get. and that's government. and that's close to 40 percent of our national income.
-Milton Friedman
Please Wait....
Translating....

I Can Spend Somebody Else's Money On

Milton Friedman
I can spend somebody else's money on somebody else. and if i spend somebody else's money on somebody else, i'm not concerned about how much it is, and i'm not concerned about what i get. and that's government. and that's close to 40 percent of our national income.
Views: 7
Cite this Page
Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.
APA FORMAT
Embed this Quote
Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.
HTML CODE
Topic
Government Income Concerned

More From Milton Friedman

If you spend your own money on yourself, you care how much you spend and how well you spend it. if you spend your own money on someone else, you care how much you spend, but you don't care how well it is spent. if you spend someone else's money on yourself, you don't care how much you spend, but you do care how well it is spent. and finally, if you spend someone else's money on someone else, you don't care how much you spend, and you don't care how well it is spent. that is government.
Government Care Wells
Regarding the economy & taxation: america's most successful achievers do pay a higher share of the total tax burden. the top one percent income earners paid 18 percent of the total tax burden in 1981, and paid 25 percent in 1991. the bottom 50 percent of income earners paid only 8 percent of the total tax burden, and paid only 5 percent in 1991. history shows that tax cuts have always resulted in improved economic growth producing more tax revenue in the treasury.
Success Cutting America
To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. money, money everywhere and still not enough! and then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?
Money Night Crowds
Spending by government currently amounts to about 45 percent of national income. by that test, government owns 45 percent of the means of production that produce the national income. the u.s. is now 45 percent socialist.
Mean Government Income
Economists often talk about the 80/20 principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done by 20 percent of the participants. in most societies, 20 percent of criminals commit 80 percent of crimes. twenty percent of motorists cause 80 percent of all accidents. twenty percent of beer drinkers drink 80 percent of all beer. when it comes to epidemics, though, this disproportionality becomes even more extreme: a tiny percentage of people do the majority of the work.
Beer Epidemics Ideas
This is a very important issue that the corporate media chooses not to talk about a whole lot, that we have an economic system which is rigged, which means that at the same time as the middle class of this country is disappearing, almost all of the new income and wealth in america is going to the top 1 percent. you have the top one-tenth of 1 percent owning almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent - 58 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent.
Country Mean Media
Similar Quotes
To be in the eu, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of european countries.
Country Mean Together
They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. they blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.
Country Children Home
It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.
Country Kindness America
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. the ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a president and senators and congressmen and government officials but the voters of this country.
Country Witty Patriotic

Trending Author

Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger
Bobby Rahal
Bobby Rahal
Kenny Loggins
Kenny Loggins
Penelope Cruz
Penelope Cruz
John Dykstra
John Dykstra
Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Calment
Category
Information
Inspirational
Philosophy
Personal Growth
Happiness & Joy
Life Lessons
Success & Business
Motivation