One of the things that frustrate me about politics is that politicians seldom discuss what William Graham Sumner called the Forgotten Man. Here’s how he explains it:

As soon as A observes something which seems to him to be wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B, and A and B then propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X. Their law always proposes to determine what C shall do for X or, in the better case, what A, B and C shall do for X. As for A and B, who get a law to make themselves do for X what they are willing to do for him, we have nothing to say except that they might better have done it without any law, ‘but what I want to do is to look up C. I want to show you what manner of man he is. I call him the Forgotten Man.

It is morally wrong for A and B to force C to help X. If A and B want to help X, there is nothing stopping them.  But in politics that is never discussed. All that is discussed is helping X. For example, we hear about how we need to help Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac to help people how took our bad loads. We don’t hear about the burdens we are placing on the rest of society who didn’t take out bad loans.