Seven Principles of Public Policy

Free people are not equal and equal people are not equal

What belongs to you, you tend to take care of. What belongs to no one or everyone, it tends to fall off in despair

Sound policies requires that we consider long run effects and all people, not short term effects and few people.

If you encourage something, you get more of it. If you discourage something, you get less of it.

No body spends somebody else money as carefully as he spends his own

Government has nothing to give to anybody except what it first has to take from somebody else. If a government has the ability to give all the things you want then it has the capability to take all the things you've got.

Liberty makes all the difference in the world.