excerpt from The Left, the Right, and the State by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. :
Here are the top ten political lies:
(10) My new program will generate jobs.
Truth: Only the market generates jobs on net.
(9) My education program will reform schools so that they leave no child behind.
Truth: The public schools do not work for the same reason no government program can work. They exist outside the market economy.
(8) My program will save industry X.
Truth: Industry must be part of the market or else it is not really industry at all.
(7) I won’t raise your taxes but I will pass lots of new programs.
Truth: All programs must be paid for.
(6) As president, I will pursue a humble foreign policy.
Truth: Nothing in the office of the president encourages humility.
(5) This war is humanitarian and winnable.
Truth: War is nothing but a government program on a massively destructive scale, and just as error-prone.
(4) My reform will bring market-based competition. (Note: Be on the lookout for this lie, which market partisans are likely to believe.)
Truth: There is only one kind of genuine market, and it is rooted in private property and nothing else.
(3) We will secure the nation.
Truth: Government cannot provide security better than markets, any more than it can provide food or houses better than the market.
(2) Government is compassionate.
Truth: Men who seek power over the lives of others are the coldest, cruelest humans of all.
(1)You can’t love your country and hate your government.
Truth: A person who loves his country loves liberty first.