...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery..

Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive goods, ser….

Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be jus….

Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of ….

The legacy of the New Del was, more than anything else, a matter of ideological change. Henceforth, nearly everyone would look to the federal govern….

Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by ….

Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with math….

In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from the state's own c….

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie..

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud..

In the transfer society, the general public is not only poorer but also less contented, less autonomous, more rancorous, and more politicized. Indiv….

To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited ….

Liberty in the United States will never be reestablished so long as elites and masses alike look to the president to perform supernatural feats and t….

For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment the government's dominion an….

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours..

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; in….

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally..

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clo….

Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the people decid….

Transfer payments discourage the recipients from earning income in the present and from investing in their potential to earn income in the future. Pe….

It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classifie….