Libertarian Party of Montgomery County
Promoting liberty throughout the Greater Dayton area and the Miami Valley
The county’s arguments would create a loophole allowing any state to take property without compensation, no matter how well‐defined the property interest, merely by changing the state’s definition of property.
https://www.cato.org/blog/supreme-court-should-end-home-equity-theft
Policymakers across the country should marshal current public support for building more homes and make zoning reform a policy priority. Doing so would unlock opportunity for a wide variety of people.
https://www.cato.org/blog/americans-worried-about-housing-cost-open-yimby
There is solid evidence diversion programs are a win‐win opportunity, reducing welfare participation and expenditures while helping recipients. Yet, even in those states with diversion programs on the books, those options are rarely utilized. This is a lost opportunity.
https://www.cato.org/blog/diversion-dole-alternative-traditional-welfare-part-i
On the market, which is a paradigm of voluntary cooperation, each individual serves the interests of others by pursuing his own. Economics helps understand this lesson.
“I’ve warned my publishers that if they later on so much as change a single comma in one of my books, they will never see another word from me. Never! Ever!” [Dahl] said. With his typically evocative language, he added: “When I am gone, if that happens, then I’ll wish mighty Thor knocks very hard on their heads with his Mjolnir. Or I will send along the ‘enormous crocodile’ to gobble them up.”
Monte Cristo shows how this can flower into something more open and affordable: by avoiding excessive rules in the first place.
https://reason.com/2023/02/19/how-a-public-housing-project-became-an-unplanned-neighborhood/
…every socialist experiment is a bright new dawn in the beginning and then a “that’s not real socialism!” hellscape a few years later. Russia, China, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua — all hailed by socialists in the beginning, then ignored or dismissed once the results became visible.
The Iron Law of Prohibition strikes again. Opiates are being cut with Xylazine, a non-opiod veterinary tranquilizer which doesn’t respond to Narcan, whose side effects make fentanyl pale in comparison – one being widespread skin ulceration.
Xylazine is being used as a cutting agent for the same reason fentanyl is: the War on Drugs incentivizes a need to avoid detection, leading to drugs with less weight and volume that are easier to hide, store, and transport.
End the War on Drugs to save lives.