John Stossel: Good intentions: Bad results

STOSSEL: Good intentions: Bad results

By John Stossel Government makes most things worse. Lyndon Johnson launched a War on Poverty; Richard Nixon a War on Drugs. Both had good intentions, but their “wars” do more harm than good. I believed the War on Poverty would lift people out of poverty. At the time I was a naive Princeton student who believed my professors when they said, “It’s wrong that in this rich country, people are poor, so government should fix that. Targeted programs wi…

John Stossel: Good intentions: Bad results

GOVERNMENT makes most things worse.

Yaron Brook: Selfishness, Immigration, War, Love, Liberty and of Course Ayn Rand

Yaron Brook: Selfishness, Immigration, War, Love, Liberty and of Course Ayn Rand Government makes most things worse. Lyndon Johnson launched a War on Poverty; Richard Nixon a War on Drugs. Both had good intentions, but their “wars” do more harm than good. I believed the War on Poverty would lift people out of poverty. At the time I was a naive Princeton student who believed my professors when they said, “It’s wrong that in this rich country, pe…

The government's wars on poverty and drugs had good intentions—but bad results

"All these government programs that regulate and control, they institutionalize mediocrity at best," argues Yaron Brook, head of the Ayn Rand Institute.

The Full Yaron Brook Interview: Selfishness, Immigration, War, Love, Liberty and of Course Ayn Rand by John Stossel

In a full, hour-long interview, Brook defends the marketplace and the self-interest that drives it. He also carves out the path of self-interest through mountains of big issues: war, poverty, immigration, drugs and children--even how self-interest is important for your love life.

Good intentions, bad results: That’s what government is about

Government makes most things worse.