An Economist's Protest

"We have heard much these past few years of how the government protects the consumer. A far more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government""In a free society, a government has no business using the power of the law or the taxpayer's money to propagandize for some views and to prevent the transmission of others.""There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.""The old saw is that the Quakers went to the New World to do good and ended up doing well. Today, well-meaning reformers go to Washington to do good and end up doing harm.""Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement."