Stephen Moore Quotes

Stephen Moore

Profession : Writer

Birth : February 16, 1960

We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so - to 'do unto others.'

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Stalin, Lenin, Marx, Mao, Pol Pot, Antifa, Castro, Che Guevara and the like use power to reduce the sanctity of the individual for the common good of the collective. It is a kind of enslavement that degrades the human spirit and makes us poorer over time.

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The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.

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Every dollar a foreigner spends over here directly subtracts a dollar from the trade deficit.

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Whereas Jimmy Carter had aggressively pursued anti-merger activity - the imbecilic case against AT&T was prosecuted under President Carter - Mr. Reagan understood the virtue of allowing companies to exploit the synergies of mergers to gain efficiency and lower costs.

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The best measure of inflation is what is happening with commodity prices.

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The war on driving includes calls for carbon and gas taxes, tens of billions of gas tax money diverted to inefficient and little-used mass transit projects, and opposition to building new roads and highways.

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The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.

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Trumponomics is Obamanomics in reverse.

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Is there any nation on earth that has more natural attractions, from the scenic coastal towns of Maine to the volcanic islands of Hawaii and the natural beauty of our majestic national parks?

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The problem with tariffs is they shift higher costs onto the backs of non-protected industries and consumers.

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It turns out the businessman knows more about how the economy really works than the chattering class. What a shock.

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A lifetime single worker really gets a horrid deal from Social Security. The return on average is less than 0.5 percent. These workers would be nearly better off stuffing their payroll tax dollars under a mattress.

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The first iron rule of American politics is Follow the Money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington.

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One of the key principles of Trumponomics is that faster economic growth can help solve a multitude of other social and economic problems, from poverty to inner-city decline to lowering the national debt.

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If the Left really wants to preserve family structure and advance cultural values such as work, why do they oppose reforms to a welfare system that pays teenage girls to have babies out of wedlock and disparage conservative proposals that require able-bodied Americans to work for their welfare benefits like food stamps?

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My father built a small business from scratch with years and years of sweat equity and many, many weeks away from home. He employed about 50 people, and by the end of his working years, the business was highly successful. He became a millionaire.

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Whenever there is an international crisis - an earthquake, a flood, a war - Americans provide more assistance than the people of any other nation.

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Government can only spend a dollar to help someone when it forcibly takes a dollar from someone else.

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At its core, government welfare is predicated on a false compassion.

Stephen Moore