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The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully they get a return on that investment. I don't think there's anything wrong with good old American capitalism.

— Steve Stivers

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

— Ted Cruz

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

— Thomas Friedman

I strongly believe in a free market, and it is great when companies make money and pay their people well.

— John Delaney

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

— Marco Rubio

The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources you consume in a society. That's probably the most unbiased utility function there is, as opposed to someone's opinion.

— Michael J. Saylor

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

— Jim Bunning

The trouble with capitalism as a system is that only those who have or can get capital can make it work for them, and that leaves out damn near all of us.

— Molly Ivins

Investing capital in the free market creates innovation, businesses, jobs and economic growth. Investing capital in the government creates more bureaucracy, more paperwork and inefficiency.

— Michael Ramirez

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

— Lee R. Raymond

✗Opposing Perspectives

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

— Jane Smiley