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

Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.

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.

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.

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

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