Milton Friedman Quotes
The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
Friedman, Milton. Interview by National Taxpayers Union. The Taxpayer, 1999.
This quotation was used throughout American history. See Oliver Wendell Holmes {603715}, Daniel Webster {37299}. Maurice L. Duplessis of Canada had a contrary variant: {600341}.
The founder was Charles E. Coughlin, 1891-1979, a demagogic Catholic Priest who drafted the principles and invited others to join him. Hundreds of thousands did in this organization which began in idealism, and ended in scandal and hate mongering, so much so that Father Coughlin was ordered off the radio and out of politics by the Catholic Church. The National Union in 1936 had morphed into the Union Party which ran Presidential candidates in the 1936 election. The tax-exempt bond which the Union tried to abolish became the mainstay for the financing of most of the public infrastructure of the United State and still is.
Milton Friedman was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy. With George Stigler and others, Friedman was among the intellectual leaders of the Chicago school of economics, a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the work of the faculty at the University of Chicago that rejected Keynesianism in favor of monetarism until the mid-1970s, when it turned to new classical macroeconomics heavily based on the concept of rational expectations. Several students and young professors who were recruited or mentored by Friedman at Chicago went on to become leading economists, including Gary Becker, Robert Fogel, Thomas Sowell and Robert Lucas Jr.
