27.50% - The federal regulatory code is 180,000 pages, half of it probably contradicting the other half — Congress should repeal two regulations for every new one it adds.
25.00% - We built a constitutional republic — elected representatives, accountable to voters, bounded by the Constitution; not a pure democracy or a technocracy.
22.50% - Government can't be fired for wasting money and has no incentive to innovate — that's why every government project runs over budget and underperforms.
15.00% - Government is run by humans. Humans are fallible, corruptible, and self-interested. Build the system with that assumption, not with the pretense that bureaucrats are noble.
10.00% - Trusted government once — watched them lie about Vietnam, Watergate, WMDs in Iraq, COVID lab leak. Never again. Skepticism of government isn't paranoia. It's patriotism.
Pursuing good governance should be a top priority for any society.
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.
50.00% - The federal regulatory code is 180,000 pages, half of it probably contradicting the other half — Congress should repeal two regulations for every new one it adds.
15.00% - If a policy actually works, fund it — regardless of which pot the money comes from. Stop the shell game of moving money around to look busy. What matters is results.
15.00% - We built a constitutional republic — elected representatives, accountable to voters, bounded by the Constitution; not a pure democracy or a technocracy.
10.00% - Earmarks are how politicians buy votes with other people's money — all revenues should go into the general fund with Congress voting on priorities.
10.00% - Legitimate government exists only by consent of the governed — when it stops representing the people who created it, it loses its claim to authority.
50.00% - Pursuing good governance should be a top priority for any society.
0.00% - The pursuit of good governance should be a priority for any society.
50.00% - Governance