This plea comes from the bottom of my heart. Every friend of freedom, and I know you are one, must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. A country in which shooting down unidentified planes "on suspicion" can be seriously considered as a drug-war tactic is not the kind of United States that either you or I want to hand on to future generations.

Friedman proposed a negative income tax to replace the existing welfare system. Friedman's essay "The Methodology of Positive Economics" (1953) provided the epistemological pattern for his own subsequent research and to a degree that of the Chicago School. He once stated that his role in eliminating U.

He theorized there existed a "natural" rate of unemployment and argued that governments could increase employment above this rate (e. by increasing aggregate demand) only at the risk of causing inflation to accelerate. His ideas concerning monetary policy taxation privatization and deregulation influenced government policies especially during the 1980s.