The Question Is Not Whether We Wish

The Monetary Managers Are Fond Of Telling Us That They Have Substituted 'responsible Money Management' For The Gold Standard. But There Is No Historic Record Of Responsible Paper Money Management ... The Record Taken, As A Whole Is One Of Hyperinflation, Devaluation And Monetary Chaos.

Diluting The Money Supply With Paper Is The Moral Equivalent Of Diluting The Milk Supply With Water.

The Way To Maximize Production Is To Maximize The Incentives To Production. And The Way To Do That, As The Modern World Has Discovered, Is Through The System Known As Capitalism - The System Of Private Property, Free Markets, And Free Enterprise.

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.

We Cannot Distribute More Wealth Than Is Created. We Cannot In The Long Run Pay Labor As A Whole More Than It Produces.