With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
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… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.' — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word,… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc.… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the price placard… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
