You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.