Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

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

The government does not have some magic wand that can 'bring down the cost of health care.' It can buy a smaller quantity or lower quality of medical care, as other countries with government-run medical care do.

The poor are the very lifeblood of the left, attracting activists, supporting among the intelligentsia, and - perhaps most important - allowing the left to indulge in self-congratulation as people who 'care.' But, if they really cared, they would want to know what the facts are and what the actual consequences of their various nostrums are.

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?

The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?