"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."
— Milton Friedman
The Government Solution To A Problem
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
About this quote
This line is attributed to Friedman across numerous lectures and television appearances, though it does not appear verbatim in a single canonical text. It reflects his core skepticism about government intervention: that the attempt to solve a problem through political action typically introduces new distortions, misallocations, and unintended consequences at least as harmful as the original problem. Friedman developed this argument most rigorously in Capitalism and Freedom (1962) and Free to Choose (1980).
Source
Attributed, various lectures and interviews
