The encouraging news is the degree to which Americans are realizing that they hold the key and bear the responsibility for the own financial futures. Alfred R. Berkeley, president Nasdaq Stock Market, Washington Times, March 24, 1997. If so, there is no end to the duty. Although the ends of promoting morality and family are desirable, they do not warrant any means. Neither moral nor constitutional principle justifies government conscripting co-workers, employers and taxpayers to pay for other people's families.
Government does a hideous job of molding souls.
The state is good at simple tasks, like killing people and seizing their wealth. Concentrated power in the hands of sinful man is more likely to produce sin than anything else. To encourage virtue, we must protect freedom. Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute in the Wall Street Journal, March 19, 1997. Though it should, and we ought to get back to it.