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Higher Taxes Will Not Reduce the Deficit

Higher taxes will not reduce the deficit, except for a brief interval. They will simply increase government spending. That is the lesson taught by past experiences. -- Milton Friedman

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Peer-reviewed by Reality

‘In engineering, you are peer-reviewed by reality.’ Guru Madhavan (source)

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Two software design methods

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -- Sir "Tony" C.A.R. Hoare - ACM Turing Award

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The West cannot mass-import foreign cultures

“The West cannot mass-import foreign cultures that have failed to ever build a successful society of their own.” – President Donald Trump, Davos, 2026

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If ‘diversity’ was actually our strength

"If ‘diversity’ was actually our strength, they wouldn’t have to keep telling us it is" – Rupert Lowe, MP

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The More The State 'Plans'

The more the state 'plans', the more difficult planning becomes for the individual – Hayek

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You can tell a lot

"You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies" Charlie Kirk

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Difficulty of Understanding

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -- Upton Sinclair (I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935), ISBN 0-520-08198-6)

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Ten Million Young Women

Ten million young women rose to their feet with the cry, We will not be dictated to: and proceeded to become stenographers – G.K.Chesterton

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"Fuck You" Money

There's no point having 'fuck you' money if you aren't going to say 'fuck you' -- JK Rowling

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Voting Machine Requirements

Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first. -- Jeff Bezos

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Being powerful is like being a lady.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. -- Margaret Thatcher

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In the Name of Saving Democracy

In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it -- R.F. Kennedy Jr. (source)

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Fascism and communism

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion -- Hayek

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Truth is a Distraction

“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.” -- Katherine Maher

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Fossil Fuels Saved The Whale

Whales, seals, penguins and bears are booming for a very simple reason: we stopped killing them. Their meat could not compete with beef. And, above all, their fur and blubber could not compete with petroleum products. Or to put it another way, fossil fuels saved the whale. -- Matt Ridley

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Emergencies

Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded -- Hayek

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Abolish Useless Government

“I have been going up and down this country preaching that Government - Federal and State and local - costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching. As an immediate program of action we must abolish useless offices… We must merge, we must consolidate subdivisions of Government, and, like

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Communism Does Not Level The Playing Field

Communism does not level the playing field. It sets the playing field on fire, and removes the ball. --Devon Eriksen (source - https://twitter.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1740430022442172544 )

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Tofu-eating Wokerati

"I am afraid that it is the Labour Party, the Lib Dems, the coalition of chaos, the Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati and, dare I say, the anti-growth coalition that we have to thank for the disruption we are seeing on our roads today." Suella Braverman

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Men Lying To Do What?

“Think about this. 1940s, World War II, men lied about their age to get in to enlist. Now, in 2023, we have men lying about their sex to get into women’s sports, or women’s prisons, or domestic shelters, or sororities or bathrooms, locker rooms.” -- Riley Gaines

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Learning from China

"We have a lot to learn from China on energy." – Jennifer Granholm From Steve Hayward

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Adult Material

“Adult material shouldn’t be in a fourth-grade classroom. You want to look at adult material, go watch Hunter Biden’s laptop for all I care – but don’t do it to our kids.” – Ron DeSantis

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The Most Dangerous Person

"The most dangerous person on earth is the arrogant intellectual who lacks the humility to see that society needs no masters and cannot be planned from the top down" — Hayek

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Up With Which I Will Not Put

"This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put." — W S Churchill