Noam Chomsky Quotes About Free Market

• The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich.

  Noam Chomsky

  Cost, Benefits, Pay

• Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't matter what the reality is; they concocted an image that you worship.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Reality, Government

  Source: www.iww.org

• Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Subsidies, Agribusiness

• Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.

  Noam Chomsky

  Free Market, Circulation, Labor

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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