32.00% - Wherever government takes over — healthcare, education, housing — costs rise and quality stagnates; the pattern is consistent enough to be a law of nature.
30.00% - 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.
18.00% - Power is self-perpetuating — it always seeks more, and the Constitution's checks exist because the Founders understood this.
11.00% - 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.
9.00% - 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.
The size and reach of the federal government must be actively reduced.
55.00% - Half our regulations are paper rules with too few inspectors and too weak penalties — write fewer rules and enforce them better.
45.00% - Government should be well-resourced.
62.50% - 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.
25.00% - 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.
12.50% - Power is self-perpetuating — it always seeks more, and the Constitution's checks exist because the Founders understood this.
25.00% - The size and reach of the federal government must be actively reduced.
25.00% - The size and reach of the federal government should be actively reduced.
0.00% - We must fight “big government”
50.00% - Credit rating agencies and the subprime crisis