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The Envious Are More Likely To Be Mollified By Seeing Others Deprived Of Some Advantage Than By Gaining It For Themselves. It Is Not What They Lack That Chiefly Troubles Them, But What Others Have.

All Subsidy Measures, All Schemes To Redistribute Income Or To Force Peter To Support Paul, Are One-eyed As Well As Shortsighted. They Get Their Immediate Appeal By Focusing Attention On The Alleged Needs Of Some Particular Group Of Intended Beneficiaries. But The Inevitable Victims - Those Who Are Going To Be Asked To Pay For The New Handout In Increased Taxes (which Directly Or Indirectly Means Almost Everybody Else) - Are Left Out Of Account. Only One-half Of The Problem Has Been Seen. The Cost Of The Proposed Solution Has Been Overlooked.

There Are Men Regarded Today As Brilliant Economists, Who Deprecate Saving And Recommend Squandering On A National Scale As The Way Of Economic Salvation; And When Anyone Points To What The Consequences Of These Policies Will Be In The Long Run, They Reply Flippantly, As Might The Prodigal Son Of A Warning Father: 'in The Long Run We Are All Dead.' And Such Shallow Wisecracks Pass As Devastating Epigrams And The Ripest Wisdom.

Multiculturalism Means Your Kid Has To Learn Some Wretched Tribal Dirge For The School Holiday Concert Instead Of Getting To Sing 'rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer.'

The Sad Fact Is That Today Most Of The Heads Of Big Businesses In America Have Become So Confused Or Intimidated That, So Far From Carrying The Free Market To Argument To The Enemy, They Fail To Defend Themselves Adequately Even When Attacked.