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… — 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
