Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

The political class can't imagine a decentralized world where good things happen...without them. But in the real world, that's exactly how good things happen, and how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.