Wisdom from an Unlikely Source

“It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying laziness.”
— Penn Jilette

When you subsidize something you get more of it (drug use, unemployment, unwed mothers, welfare, etc) and when you tax something you get less of it (jobs, small businesses, entrepreneurs, etc).