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.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

The way to get people's votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will stop those other people from giving them trouble. But if you really want to help, then you can tell them the truth and risk losing their votes.

There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.

To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.