3 December 2020 Mitch Daniels Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.
3 December 2020 Mitch Daniels No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
3 December 2020 Mitch Daniels In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.
3 December 2020 Mitch Daniels Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
3 December 2020 Mitch Daniels If freedom’s best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.
3 December 2020 Mitch Daniels We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
3 December 2020 Mitch Daniels When they call the slightest spending reductions ‘painful’, we will say ‘If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?’ And ‘If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.’
3 December 2020 Mitch Daniels The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.
3 December 2020 Mitch Daniels Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.
