Experience trumps brilliance.

Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to go get some accountant to fill out the forms for them - and then sign under penalty of perjury that it was done right. If you knew how to do it right, you wouldn't have to go to somebody else to have it done, would you?

Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.

It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.