Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Mark Thornton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American economist Mark Thornton.
Last updated on November 29, 2024.
Mark Thornton

Mark Thornton is an American economist of the Austrian School. He has written on the topic of prohibition of drugs, the economics of the American Civil War, and the "Skyscraper Index". He is a Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Alabama and a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute.

The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future agenda of the federal government has already been established to outlaw alcohol and tobacco in the near future. ... If current trends persist, America will be moving toward stricter prohibitions, greater restrictions, and more centralized control over consumption. This represents an erosion of liberty at its most fundamental level.
Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything. — © Mark Thornton
Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.
The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic classes — saving.
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