Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness but instead are designed to secure the particular happiness of various advocacy groups, politicians and bureaucrats.

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

Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now.

Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.