Margaret Thatcher — "It is not the business of government to nationalize industries. It is the busine…"
It is not the business of government to nationalize industries. It is the business of government to keep industries competitive.
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"The state has no source of money other than the money people earn themselves. If the state wishes to spend more it can only do so by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more."
"I am not a fan of the welfare state. I think it is an expensive way of trying to do things which could be done better by voluntary effort."
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About Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
British Prime Minister (1979-1990) whose free-market reforms and confrontation with trade unions defined the late-20th-century right. Closely associated with Ronald Reagan (her closest international ally). For an intellectual contrast, see Tony Benn, Labour cabinet minister and democratic-socialist figurehead — Benn was the loudest parliamentary opposition to Thatcherism throughout the 1980s. His diaries and Thatcher's autobiography are the two opposing histories of the period — Britain's class politics is structured around which view was right.