The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.

The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good it makes its crusaders feel.

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.

When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What is your policy toward foreign students?" My reply was: "To me, all students are the same. I treat them all the same and hold them all to the same standards." The next semester there was an organized boycott of my classes by foreign students. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.