Occupation: Reporter Birth: March 6, 1947
A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system..
You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't..
When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort.
The political class can't imagine a decentralized world where good things happen...without them. But in the real world, that's exactly how good thing….
If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as ….
All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger..
Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?.
There's no business that's too small for government to torture.
Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions.
What happened under communism - and increasingly, is happening in America, as Joseph Sobran put it: 'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'G….
We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failur….
When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger..
David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years..
To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion ca….
Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important t….
I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up….
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose..
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world..
Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling u….
What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was already $170,000 in debt. You'd tell him….
What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people….