If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

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 to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse.