40.56% - Wherever government takes over — healthcare, education, housing — costs rise and quality stagnates; the pattern is consistent enough to be a law of nature.
27.78% - 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.
15.00% - We shouldn't punish success.
10.00% - Government doesn't grant you rights — you're born with them; the moment you accept 'some' restrictions on freedom, you've opened the floodgates.
3.89% - Every bloated government program started with a good idea — then bureaucrats created fiefdoms and the original mission was forgotten.
2.78% - From the DMV to the Pentagon, when there's no competition and no accountability, inefficiency and corruption are inevitable outcomes.
Government is inherently inefficient because it lacks the accountability mechanisms of private enterprise.
27.50% - Government doesn't grant you rights — you're born with them; the moment you accept 'some' restrictions on freedom, you've opened the floodgates.
27.50% - Half our regulations are paper rules with too few inspectors and too weak penalties — write fewer rules and enforce them better.
22.50% - Public lands belong to all Americans.
22.50% - 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.
22.91% - Wherever government takes over — healthcare, education, housing — costs rise and quality stagnates; the pattern is consistent enough to be a law of nature.
14.50% - Head Start, DARE, ethanol mandates, Cash for Clunkers — programs studies proved don't work, kept running anyway because someone's job depended on it.
14.48% - 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.
11.11% - Trump put America first — every other presidency in my lifetime put globalists, the UN, or Wall Street first. He meant it, and that's why I voted for him twice.
5.86% - We shouldn't punish success.
5.47% - 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.
5.47% - Regulations that cost $10 million in compliance to mitigate $100,000 in risk happen constantly — Washington imposes the burden without ever running a cost-benefit analysis.
3.23% - Welfare programs that treat recipients as capable of more actually work — permanent income support without work requirements does the opposite.
3.20% - 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.
2.63% - $35 trillion in debt, 180,000 pages of regulation, agencies not reviewed in decades — Washington is too big, and it's time to cut it down.
2.63% - Good governance means limited governance — small, transparent, and accountable, doing only what the Constitution authorizes: defense, courts, basic infrastructure.
2.63% - Government doesn't grant you rights — you're born with them; the moment you accept 'some' restrictions on freedom, you've opened the floodgates.
1.13% - 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.
0.91% - One agency says safe, the next says dangerous; one administration rolls back rules, the next reinstates them — industry can't plan or invest. That's your government.
0.79% - 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.
0.79% - Every bloated government program started with a good idea — then bureaucrats created fiefdoms and the original mission was forgotten.
0.57% - Don't rely on 911 or FEMA — average response time is over 10 minutes and government will let you down when it counts. Be prepared.
0.57% - From the DMV to the Pentagon, when there's no competition and no accountability, inefficiency and corruption are inevitable outcomes.
0.57% - Government should be exactly as large as the job requires — every additional layer is another opportunity for waste, corruption, and losing sight of the mission.
0.57% - County government, township government, water district, school board — every layer takes a cut of your taxes, and too many bureaucracies are chasing the same dollar. Consolidate the overlap.
25.00% - Government is inherently inefficient because it lacks the accountability mechanisms of private enterprise.
25.00% - Government is inherently inefficient because it faces no consequences for failure.
25.00% - Government is structurally inefficient because it lacks the accountability mechanisms private enterprise faces.
25.00% - Government is inherently inefficient because it does not face the consequences private enterprise does.
0.00% - Government is inherently inefficient.
50.00% - Private finance initiative