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.

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

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

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

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

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

Markets help people pursue their happiness more efficiently and effectively. Because they are so effective, markets provide benefits right here and right now, even while government is busy batching the protection of happiness.