Government spending is easy to justify program by program. Everyone has their favorite to protect. But that's exactly the problem—reform through selective cuts never happens because every program finds defenders. Milton Friedman's solution? Stop trying to be selective. Cut everything across the board, forcing hard choices about what truly matters. The constraint creates the reform that good intentions never deliver.

Everyone agrees taxes need reform. But agreement on a problem doesn't mean we're pursuing the right solution. According to Milton Friedman, we've been trying the same failed approach for years. Congressional committees debate tax structure. State legislatures propose adjustments. Nothing changes. Government spending—and the taxes that fund it—keeps climbing. His prescription was radical in its simplicity: Stop trying to reform taxes. Focus on reducing them.