There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
There is no good way of measuring poverty.
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.