High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.

Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.

If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way out on a limb. They've brought it on by highly restrictive building policies, which have caused housing prices to skyrocket artificially. And they've brought it on by the Community Reinvestment Act, which presumes that politicians are better able to tell investors where to put their money than the investors themselves are. When you put all that together, you get something like what you have.

One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.