Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.

Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations.

As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and are self-serving.

When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

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.

Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.