Laughter. We need more of it. A lot of government is a joke. So why is the pro-liberty camp so serious? This humorous low tax ad from The TaxPayers' Alliance helps set a new course. (Watch to the end and you’ll get the blog’s title.)

The Alliance is from across The Big Pond, as a Scottish friend says. And, I usually don’t “get” British humor, but this ad made me and other life-time, dyed-in-the-wool policy wonks laugh near 8.30am at the recent State Policy Network Leadership Development Breakfast, co-hosted by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. (Taxing cleavage, that’s comedy at any hour—unless you live in LA.)

Friedrich A. Hayek wrote in the concluding paragraph of “The Intellectuals and Socialism,” classical liberals could lose the war of ideas, “[u]nless we can make the philosophical foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds.”

I would argue, the words “living," "ingenuity" and "imagination" cover humor. Though Mr. Hayek and I never met, I think he would agree, laughing our way to liberty is better than being dour.