Economic Restriction Quotes

The only place you have real monopolies is where government provides them.

The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition.

Restrict the right of the rich to buy up any anything and everything, and then to exercise a kind of monopoly.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then onward opposed to its removal.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia.

The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

I consider both the West Bank and Gaza to be colonised, even though Gaza is not occupied in the same way that the West Bank is. The Israeli government and military control all goods that pass in or out of that area, and they have restricted employment and building material that would allow Palestinians to rebuild homes and structures that were destroyed by bombardment.

The goods of the world market are available for Cuba to purchase, but all the foreign exchange is monopolized by the regime, which uses it for its own power and pleasure.

The King had combined with others [English merchants] to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his assent to the acts of pretended legislation [The Navigation Acts]… for cutting off our trade with all parts of the world.

Cap and trade is a sledge hammer to freedom.

When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.

Once the tentacles of redistributionism wrap themselves tightly around every part of the economy - and around our psyches - they can never be unwound.

Who needs checks and balances when the left, seemingly, knows and can decide right from wrong? When the left can decide what can be said and what cannot be said? When the left can decide how much money you're allowed to make or whether or not you deserve health care? It is a quest for power. And, it is dangerous.

Every monopoly and all exclusive privileges are granted at the expense of the public.

In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself.

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

It was the allurement of these fiscal advantages undoubtedly that prolonged the illusion and concealed the immense injury they did to industry and their infraction of natural right. This illusion had extended so far that some persons asserted that the right to work was a royal privilege which the king might sell, and that his subjects were bound to purchase from him. We hasten to correct this error and to repel the conclusion. God in giving to man wants and desires rendering labor necessary for their satisfaction, conferred the right to labor upon all men, and this property is the first, most sacred, and imprescriptible of all.... The King [Louis XVI] regards it as the first duty of his justice, and the worthiest act of benevolence, to free his subjects from any restriction upon this inalienable right of humanity.

During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

Of what do we complain? A total incapacity, produced by the foreign policy, to purchase, at any price, necessary foreign objects of consumption.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?