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

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

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

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

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

Most people are oblivious to F.A. Hayek's insight that the critical information needed to run an economy - or even 15 percent of one - doesn't exist in any one place where it is accessible to central planners. Instead, it is scattered piecemeal among millions of people. All those people put together are far wiser and better informed than Congress could ever be. Only markets - private property, free exchange and the price system - can put this knowledge at the disposal of entrepreneurs and consumers, ensuring the system will serve the people and not just the political class.

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