Why Government Is the Problem by Milton Friedman

Author:Milton Friedman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Government, homelessness, term limits, education, lawlessness and crime, family
ISBN: 978-0-8179-5443-7
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Published: 1993-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. E. J. Dionne, "Why Americans Hate Politics," Freedom Review, September–October 1991, P. 45.

2. Charles Murray, Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 (New York: Basic, 1984).

3. As recent books by Huber and Olson amply demonstrate, the government is not performing its function of adjudicating disputes very well. See Peter W. Huber, Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences (New York: Basic, 1988), and Galileo's Revenge (New York: Basic, 1991); Walter K. Olson, The Litigation Explosion (New York: Dutton, 1991).

4. Quotations from James L. Payne, "Why Congress Can't Kick the Tax and Spend Habit," Imprimis (Hillsdale College) 20, no. 5 (May 1991).

5. Government spending at all levels, federal, state, and local, in 1992 was about 43 percent of the national income. In addition, mandated expenditures plus costs imposed by regulations, tariffs, quotas, and so on in effect commandeer a healthy slice of the 57 percent nominally spent by the private sector. I conclude that the private sector controls "less than 50 percent of the country's total resources."

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