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"Poverty can decline even as inequality rises, as long as the total amount of wealth in the world is growing. To ignore this is to fall prey to the 'fixed pie fallacy'...Most of us would rather have a relatively small slice of a gigantic pie than the biggest slice of a microscopic pie. In other words, most of us would rather be wealthier in absolute terms, regardless of our relative position."

Government seized more than five billion dollars from Americans in 2014. http://bit.ly/201aFby

"Being a libertarian means being skeptical of power, skeptical that there's one way to do things...Maybe I know the best way to live my life, but, wow, I sure don't know the best way to live yours. So, why not err on the side of more freedom?" — Penn Jillette Check out Libertarianism.org for more....

"The federal government spends about $30 billion a year on the war on drugs. Much of the spending is wasteful and counterproductive."

"It’s understandable that law enforcement officers may sometimes struggle to distinguish civil asset forfeiture from extortion and bribery...That is precisely why civil asset forfeiture should be abolished."

"What Donald Trump doesn’t want you to know about his plan to build a 'Great Wall' between the U.S. and Mexico: He’d need to steal private property from Americans to build it."

“In terms of value added, professional, scientific, and technical services contribute four times more to GDP today than they did in 1955. That’s a good thing. It’s called progress. After all, do American parents really aspire to have their children sitting at a sewing machine making shirts? Or do they want their children to become doctors, computer programmers, or technology specialists-good jobs with good futures.”

"Congress should wake up to changes in technology and to postal reforms around the world. Other countries have shown that postal liberalization works, and it would work in America as well."

Happy 80th birthday to Walter Williams, seen here at our 25th anniversary dinner.

"Socialists have promised a utopia marked by equality and abundance. Instead, they have delivered tyranny and starvation."