“I can remember the time when, if we wanted a house or housing, we relied on private enterprise. In fact, Americans built more square feet of housing per person than any other country on the face of the earth. Despite that remarkable accomplishment, more and more people are coming to believe that the only way we can have adequate housing is to use government to take the earnings from some and give these earnings, in the form of housing, to others.”
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Leonard Read
Leonard Read was an influential economist, writer, and thinker who made significant contributions to the theory of free-market economics. His work 'I, Pencil' had a profound impact on the understanding of free-market principles in the mid-20th century. more
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