When government taxes and regulates, what is seen are the visible effects of government contracts, grants, and subsidies. What is not seen are all of the property, business, and jobs that would have been created if citizens were left with the right to choose.

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

Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.

I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

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

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.