Deserves' is an impossible thing to decide. No one deserves anything. Thank God we don't get what we deserve. - Milton Friedman

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

Thomas Moore estimates that their aggregate value in 1972 was between $2 and $3 billion6 — a value that corresponds solely to a government-granted monopoly position. It constitutes wealth for the people who own the certificates, but for the society as a whole it is a measure of the loss from government intervention, not a measure of productive capacity.

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.