The Milton Friedman Hat

We love Dr. Milton Friedman’s ideas. Take his vehement rejection of the military draft, for example. When King Leonidas led his 300 free Spartans against a horde of slave soldiers, who do you think fought harder? The guys who had land and families to defend? Or the ones only advancing to avoid the whips flailing at their backs? Makes perfect sense to us, plus we don’t want to get drafted. If a recruiting officer took one look at our Herculean physique he wouldn’t be able to press an M4 carbine into our hands fast enough.   Dr. Friedman had the right take on combatting inflation as well. Increasing the money supply at the same rate that the GNP increases just seems like common sense. Really, we’re in favor of any measures that mean we won’t need a wheelbarrow for all the cash we’d need to buy a carton of eggs. We do like the idea that we’re all trillionaires in Zimbabwe, though.   Some of Dr. Friedman’s ideas hold less water with us. We get what he was going for by arguing for the aboli