One-Liner: Milton Friedman’s final miracle
November 7, 2009 by William K. Wolfrum
One day in the future, when the world is a smoldering wasteland and just 10 humans remain, one of them will control all the wealth and enslave the others. And that one person will declare it the greatest of all of Milton Friedman’s miracles.
–WKW
Uncle Miltie finally died of his own ponderousness and was sent up to await entry to Heaven. When he found out there were no profits, free markets nor corporations to utilize them up there, he voluntarily went to Hell. Unfortunately, when Satan found out the Friedster was an economist, he thundered, “No, not another one! Get rid of him!” and Milt was banished back to earth. Today he is an unemployed single mother with five children in Sweden, taking full advantage of their socialist system and hating himself for it. ¿quién dice que no hay justicia?
[...] If ever anything made sense in a world made insane by Milton Friedman’s rehashed laissez faire economic theories, it would be some type of “Tobin Tax” on the financial industry. [...]