What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.
John StosselCompetition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.
John StosselFreedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.
John StosselWhere I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.
John StosselSaying that government is not the way to solve problems is not saying that humanity cannot solve its problems. What I've finally learned is this: Despite the obstacles created by governments, voluntary networks of private individuals - through voluntary exchange - solve all sorts of challenges.
John Stossel