Freedom requires us to be grown-ups, to settle for living in a society in which some people just aren’t going to do what we say or believe what we believe.
People who comply with government stay-at-home orders don't want to end up looking at the wrong end of a gun.
When your preferred tool is a government hammer, every public policy problem looks like a nail.
Most wouldn’t dream of stopping someone in the street, pulling a gun, and demanding money.
As candidates, activists, journalists, and voters gear up for tomorrow’s primary elections, it’s important to remember what politics is really all about.
If you think it is just to compel taxpayers to subsidize stadiums, banks, automakers, opera companies, passenger trains, or any other venture then you and I don’t agree.
Government "solutions" to any problem use force to take away individuals' ability to make their own decisions.
Most wouldn’t dream of stopping someone in the street, pulling a gun, and demanding money.
A government-mandated price floor seems to fit the textbook definition of "restraint, hindrance, especially by legal authority."
The problem with freedom is that other people may do things that trouble, annoy, or even anger you. In a free society, you have no authority to stop them.
The use or threat of force in pursuit of one’s goals distinguishes government action from more acceptable options.
