Liberate, don't stimulate, the American economy.

• Position: BIG GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO BUTT OUT - Brief article

Fearing a recession in the wake of the collapse of the subprime mortgage market and other economic difficulties, Washington is offering a "stimulus package" to come to the rescue. "However," points out Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, Irvine, Calif., "we don't need the government to 'stimulate' the economy with some new intervention; we need it to liberate us from all its destructive economic intervention that put us in this situation.

"We need liberation from: environmentalist restrictions on oil drilling and energy production; Sarbanes-Oxley, which treats businessmen as guilty until proven innocent and increases the...