John Stossel
John Stossel
John Frank Stosselis an American consumer television personality, author, and libertarian pundit. In October 2009, Stossel left his long-time employment at ABC News to join the Fox Business Channel and Fox News Channel. He is the host of a weekly news show on Fox Business, Stossel, which was first broadcast on December 10, 2009. Stossel also regularly provides analysis, appearing on various Fox News programs, which include weekly appearances on The O'Reilly Factor. He also writes a Fox News Blog,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 March 1947
CountryUnited States of America
Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.
When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.
No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.
Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.
I was a closet stutterer.
I like taking the subway to work.
Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?
Most people are oblivious to F.A. Hayek's insight that the critical information needed to run an economy - or even 15 percent of one - doesn't exist in any one place where it is accessible to central planners. Instead, it is scattered piecemeal among millions of people. All those people put together are far wiser and better informed than Congress could ever be. Only markets - private property, free exchange and the price system - can put this knowledge at the disposal of entrepreneurs and consumers, ensuring the system will serve the people and not just the political class.
Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgements and personal information as they delicately balance their interest, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.
Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.
Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?
If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as possible and take as much as possible because what one fails to take will be taken by someone else.