Libertarian Party of Montgomery County
Promoting liberty throughout the Greater Dayton area and the Miami Valley
As these states’ experience shows, applying the ABC test nationally would force hundreds of now‐independent occupations to be reclassified as employees, regardless of workers’ and employers’ own contracting decisions. This could impose significant economic harms—including for the very workers the proposed rule is supposedly protecting.
https://www.cato.org/blog/whats-next-americas-independent-workers
The illogic of this ordinance is almost too obvious to be worth explaining, but here it goes anyway: Regulating products solely by their flavor and with zero regard for their capacity for harm is a terrible way to legislate public health. It leaves the deadliest products widely available on the shelves of every convenience store while banning far safer alternatives that do substantially less harm to users and have a proven record of helping smokers quit.
Americans largely ignore the government’s nutritional and dietary advice. And the federal government will no doubt largely ignore the results of its own research—meaning the failure that is MyPlate will likely continue apace until it’s replaced by another highly touted but ultimately ignorable government dietary scheme.
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2.5 percent of inmates are serving life sentences; that means 97.5 percent of all federal inmates will eventually be released. Our prisons must effectively prepare inmates for release, which includes the bare minimum of protecting them from violence, but also providing them the resources they need to turn their lives around.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-law-and-order-agenda-must-include-prison-reform/
What if we had left road construction to private enterprise? The road network that began with private toll roads would have continued to develop if governments hadn’t intervened. People would never have gotten hooked on the notion that driving should be “free.” The roads and bridges would have been better maintained under private ownership than under government control, with politicians often skimping on maintenance in favor of spending that does them more immediate political good.
This rule represents another misguided attempt by the government to trade the public’s privacy rights in exchange for the endless quest for “safety.” In reality, this trade-off will likely impact the availability of consumer goods while having no corresponding positive impact on public safety. As always, trading privacy for safety points to a bitter exchange for American consumers.
Solutions should focus on undercutting the incentives that merge corporate and government interests. To preserve freedom for posterity, liberty-minded policymakers should be working to stymie the government’s ability to capture and control data in the digital commons. This means preventing public-private partnerships that give government control over private data.
Economists and more empirically minded social scientists in other disciplines viewed the claims of industrial policy efficacy with skepticism and suggested that Japan’s intervention in its economy tended to favor declining industries rather than growing ones.
…the issue is compelled speech. But distinguished legal scholars and journalists keep misstating the cases as whether a service provider can refuse service to certain types of people, such as gay people.
Malthusians err in thinking that resources are limited and that the key to saving humanity is to limit our consumption of those resources by limiting our numbers. The truth is that it’s humans who create resources in the first place. When Malthusians point to explosive population growth, they think they are identifying a problem. They are actually identifying the solution.