People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators is that they almost always make things worse. If regulators did nothing, the self-correcting mechanisms of the market would mitigate most problems with more finesse. And less cost.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as possible and take as much as possible because what one fails to take will be taken by someone else.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

It’s not about electing the right people. It’s about a narrowing their responsibilities.