We Cannot Distribute More Wealth Than Is

You Cannot Make A Man Worth A Given Amount By Making It Illegal For Anyone To Offer Him Anything Less. You Merely Deprive Him Of The Right To Earn The Amount That His Abilities And Situation Would Permit Him To Earn, While You Deprive The Community Even Of The Moderate Services That He Is Capable Of Rendering. In Brief, For A Low Wage You Substitute Unemployment. You Do Harm All Around, With No Comparable Compensation.

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.

When Each Of Us Is Free To Work Out His Own Economic Destiny, Within The Framework Of The Market Economy, The Institution Of Private Property, And The General Rule Of Law, We Will All Improve Our Economic Condition Much Faster Than When We Are Ordered Around By Bureaucrats.

In A Free Enterprise System, With An Honest And Stable Money, There Is Dominantly A Close Link Between Effort And Productivity, On The One Hand, And Economic Reward On The Other. Inflation Severs This Link. Reward Comes To Depend Less And Less On Effort And Production, And More And More On Successful Gambling And Luck.

There Is A Strange Idea Aboard, Held By All Monetary Cranks, That Credit Is Something A Banker Gives To A Man. Credit, On The Contrary, Is Something A Man Already Has. He Has It, Perhaps, Because He Already Has Marketable Assets Of A Greater Cash Value Than The Loan For Which He Is Asking. Or He Has It Because His Character And Past Record Have Earned It. He Brings It Into The Bank With Him. That Is Why The Banker Makes Him The Loan.