46.50% - Wherever government takes over — healthcare, education, housing — costs rise and quality stagnates; the pattern is consistent enough to be a law of nature.
43.00% - Capitalism is the best system we got.
8.00% - A government operation can't be fired for waste and faces no competitive pressure to innovate — every incentive that makes private enterprises perform is missing, which is why government projects run over budget.
2.50% - The American system has produced more prosperity, freedom, and innovation than any other arrangement in history — you don't have to be naive about the problems to recognize the achievement.
Free markets have lifted more people out of poverty than any government program in history.
55.00% - The "free market" is a complex legal-institutional construct requiring rules about everything from who owns what to who and for what you can sue.
45.00% - There is nothing inherent that makes a government enterprise inferior to a private enterprise.
31.07% - Capitalism is the best system we got.
21.83% - Wherever government takes over — healthcare, education, housing — costs rise and quality stagnates; the pattern is consistent enough to be a law of nature.
10.00% - The "free market" is a complex legal-institutional construct requiring rules about everything from who owns what to who and for what you can sue.
6.73% - Innovation should not be encumbered.
5.46% - The ideal economy is capitalist.
4.85% - Private ownership of the means of production is the arrangement that produces the most efficient allocation of resources — that's the empirical record.
4.50% - Thirty years of prayer and walking with God — that presence is as real as anything I've experienced, more real if I'm being honest.
3.83% - Every time taxes went down — Reagan's cuts, Bush's cuts — investment went up; lower taxes mean more money working in the real economy, not in Washington.
3.10% - Head Start, DARE, ethanol mandates, Cash for Clunkers — programs studies proved don't work, kept running anyway because someone's job depended on it.
2.90% - Success should be rewarded with a greater share of the spoils
2.04% - The American system has produced more prosperity, freedom, and innovation than any other arrangement in history — you don't have to be naive about the problems to recognize the achievement.
1.22% - Forcing businesses to prioritize collective climate goals fights their basic incentive structure — that's the feature of markets, not a bug to be engineered out.
0.82% - The U.S. doesn't have pure capitalism — it has a hybrid system where corporations big enough write their own rules and regulators and industries form crony relationships. That's the corruption, not capitalism itself.
0.82% - Private business is very good at filling in the gaps to provide goods and services that are not necessarily mandated by government coordinated efforts.
0.82% - Price signals communicate more information, faster and more accurately, than any central planning system ever devised — centrally planned alternatives simply cannot replicate what prices do.
33.33% - Free markets have lifted more people out of poverty than any government program in history.
33.33% - Free markets have outperformed every government program at lifting people out of poverty.
0.00% - Free markets do a better job than any government ever could.
0.00% - Free markets outperform government provision across nearly every domain.
50.00% - Economic reforms of Javier Milei