40.00% - Every bloated government program started with a good idea — then bureaucrats created fiefdoms and the original mission was forgotten.
35.00% - Head Start, DARE, ethanol mandates, Cash for Clunkers — programs studies proved don't work, kept running anyway because someone's job depended on it.
25.00% - Bureaucracies never die — they just grow, hire more people, and find new reasons to justify their existence; not one federal agency has ever been truly abolished.
Repeating a failed approach and expecting different results is foolish.
55.00% - The harm of public policy doing too much to address a problem is usually much less than the harm persisting after too little.
45.00% - Government should be well-resourced.
50.00% - Government's been too timid on deregulation for decades. If we've been undershooting free-market reforms, overshoot the correction. Half-measures just slow the decline.
50.00% - Every time government makes a problem worse, the answer is always more spending on the same failed approach — that's not progress, that's a protection racket.
100.00% - Repeating a failed approach and expecting different results is foolish.
0.00% - It is foolish to do the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.
50.00% - Fermi paradox