The wars on poverty, drugs, and terror are unwinnable, and so they will be perpetual.

Americans lose more of their property to civil asset forfeiture than they do to criminals.

Just a one percentage point increase in interest rates would cost the federal government more in a year than the annual cost of waging two wars.

Imagine you make $60,000 a year but owe $400,000 on your credit card and have promised to put eleven people through college: that is what the federal government's finances are like.

Debt is an especially insidious form of coercion - one imposed on citizens who haven't even been born.

Minimum wage proponents argue that the minimum wage prevents businesses from paying workers almost nothing. If that were true, then almost all jobs would pay exactly the minimum wage because there is no law requiring employers to pay more. Yet 99 percent of US jobs pay more than the minimum wage.

Since President Johnson launched the War on Poverty, the government has spent more than $22 trillion (adjusted for inflation). That’s more than three times what the United States has spent on all the actual wars it has fought in its history - combined.

At some point in our history we decided that the coercive power of government should be used as a force for attaining good rather than merely a force for preventing bad. This point of view replaced the previous view, which held that government is a necessary though dangerous thing. In short, we traded in Tom Paine and Thomas Jefferson for FDR.

It turns out that it is easier for an employer to prove that it did not hire a disabled worker for a reason unrelated to the worker’s disability than it is to prove that it fired the worker for such a reason. Consequently, the Americans with Disabilities Act actually led to a decrease in employment rates for the disabled. The law had exactly the opposite effect that lawmakers intended.