Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit goals.

Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.

Only in situations where competition is illegal will competition not act naturally to bring the best product at the lowest price to the consumer.

In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians. Sherman himself acknowledged that only 20% of the destruction inflicted by his invasion was inflicted on military objectives. Civilian non-combatants, essentially innocents, suffered 80% of the losses.

Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade between individuals or nations, you must realize that your standard of living is being lowered as a result.