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The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that's the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them.

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No company can be expected to build a nuclear reactor, an oil well, a coal mine, or anything else that's one hundred percent safe under all circumstances. The costs would be prohibitive. It's unreasonable to expect corporations to totally guard against small chances of every potential accident.

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Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with tax increases on the wealthy, because a tax increase doesn't reduce the size of government.

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By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.

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Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

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Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

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You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.

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It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.

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The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

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There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: June 24th, 1946

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