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To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.
Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.
Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness but instead are designed to secure the particular happiness of various advocacy groups, politicians and bureaucrats.
As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.
Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.
Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.
Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now.
Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.
Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'
What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.
The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.
Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs,
our policy against narcotics
like any public policy
comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings
are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.
