Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.

To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.

With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.