I received an email from a conservative list with a headline of “You cannot tax this country into prosperity.” I replied with “You also cannot overprice the country into prosperity. It’s the flipside of taxation.”

My friends, that is just the beginning. We need to begin to view these crackdowns the same way the sharks view the folks who fall overboard…ever ever circling towards the center. What I am talking about is an ever increasing insistence upon moral purity coming from all places the government. [...]

Bureaucracy is created whenever we try to guarantee that something can never happen again.