Hans F. Sennholz Quotes About Politicians

Quotes about: Politicians

• Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation and taxation tend to hamper economic activity, inhibit productivity, and depress levels of living.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Depressing, Taxation, Levels

• The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Government, Income, Wealth

• The international monetary order is more precarious by far today than it was in 1929. Then, gold was international money, incorruptible, unmanageable, and unchangeable. Today, the U.S. dollar serves as the international medium of exchange, managed by Washington politicians and Federal Reserve officials, manipulated from day to day, and serving political goals and ambitions. This difference alone sounds the alarm to all perceptive observers.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Ambition, Order, Differences

• Under the influence of collectivist ideologies, many politicians and journalists are ever eager to strike at successful entrepreneurs who earn much more than they do. It is difficult to ascertain their motives; it can be simple envy which consumes many men, or it can be economic ignorance.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Ignorance, Successful, Simple

• A monetary order created and managed by politicians and officials is bound to disappoint.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Order, Politician, Disappoint

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