Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.