When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.
Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"
We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.
Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.
Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?
There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.