Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.

In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions.

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.