Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax rates in the nation. If you look at the economic metrics over the last decade for both groups, the zero-income-tax-rate states outperform the highest-income-tax-rate states by a fairly sizable amount.

Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.

When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.

The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.

You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him.

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.