Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again.

The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

Even as the government dominates the headlines, private entrepreneurs are busy every day working to improve products and services that improve our lives. They do it without taxing us or regulating us, or making us suffer through tedious elections or political debates. They make their products and offer them to us in a way that pleases the consuming public the most. We can choose whether we want them or not.

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

Now, it is sometimes said that medical care is too important to be left to the market, and that it is immoral to profit from the illnesses of others. I say medical care is too important to be left to the failed central plans of the political class. And as for profiting from providing medical care, we can never be reminded enough that in a free society, a profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.

What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers.