Joel Miller
Joel Miller
government use wealth
The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.
government effort doe
The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.
government people should
To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.
government use groups
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.
moving people needs
Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.
government quality decrease
As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.
government way common
The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.
meaningful people risk
What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.
simple strings-attached drug
Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs, our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy -- comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.
quilts crazy law
Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness but instead are designed to secure the particular happiness of various advocacy groups, politicians and bureaucrats.
government focus should
Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.
government people benefits
Markets help people pursue their happiness more efficiently and effectively. Because they are so effective, markets provide benefits right here and right now, even while government is busy batching the protection of happiness.
government jumping demand
Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.
fixed problems
What I think we could see come May is a realization that we haven't fixed the problems that we have.