As a libertarian, I would like to abolish a vast range of current laws for reasons unrelated to rule-of-law considerations. I think a high proportion of current laws are substantively unjust; if I didn’t think that, I would not be a libertarian in the first place. https://reason.com/volokh/2024/04/30/the-difference-between-justice-and-the-rule-of-law/
There are real, identifiable individuals who lose their lives or are severely injured and who were forbidden by their own benevolent governments to carry means of protection.
The Libertarian Party of Montgomery County condemns Dayton Code of Ordinances Sec. 137.2, “Preparing and distributing food in public place within central area of the city”, which has surfaced in the news following the arrest of a local man for violating its provisions. Nearly a decade old, this ordinance is … Continue reading Libertarian Party of Montgomery County condemns Dayton anti-homeless ordinance
Yet millions of pain patients have been force-tapered to ineffective dose levels, and thousands of them are dying of medical collapse or suicide, while the DEA continues to persecute their doctors for trying to help them. It is time to evict the DEA from doctors’ examination rooms. https://reason.com/2024/04/15/government-data-refute-the-notion-that-overprescribing-caused-the-opioid-crisis/
Where are the limits of federal power? Vance is positing a situation in which the government must grant implicit or explicit approval of every merger and acquisition involving an American company. https://reason.com/2024/04/11/j-d-vance-thinks-u-s-steels-shareholders-werent-adequately-warned-of-j-d-vances-efforts-to-block-sale/
It is against the law to prepare or distribute food, clothing or toiletries in a public place within the central area of the city without a city permit. https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton-man-arrested-after-giving-food-to-homeless-without-a-permit-some-say-city-law-criminalizes-charity/YDED2OW4KZCGZG6XU5FQ3JXIUE/ https://archive.is/nxtLd
Michigan law requires MLCC to exercise “complete control over alcoholic beverage traffic,” but it turns out that the agency lacks control over pretty much everything. https://reason.com/2024/04/06/how-michigan-lost-1-million-of-liquor/
Government determination of which assertions are false and should therefore be punished is always perilous. When institutions—scholars, the government as speaker, the media, perhaps opposing election campaigns—are available to deal with such matters, there is a way to avoid the peril while still rebutting the lies. It’s imperfect, but it’s … Continue reading Journal of Free Speech Law: My “When Are Lies Constitutionally Protected?”
Americans do not readily embrace government-imposed collectivization. “Community,” in the Tocquevillian sense — voluntary associations which comprise the fabric of civil society — cannot be manufactured or externally imposed; civic cooperation must be organic.
The CBO projects [interest] payments to the U.S. government’s creditors will rise to $1 trillion in 2026. The U.S. government’s gross interest payments to its creditors started exceeding that level in 2023. If not for a Supreme Court ruling rejecting student loan forgiveness last year, the U.S. government’s net interest … Continue reading Tipping Point: CBO Director’s Warning on America’s Fiscal Path
[China] is reaping the whirlwind of conscious decisions on Beijing’s part over the past 15 years to embrace more state-centric economic policies. …Problems, however, are to be expected when the government plays a heavy-handed role in directing investment — a process which steadily accelerated in China after Xi Jinping came … Continue reading China’s Economic Facade is Cracking
“Gonzalez was so hurt by the experience and so embarrassed by the media coverage of her arrest,” the petition says, that “she gave up her council seat and swore off organizing petitions or criticizing her government.” https://reason.com/2024/03/21/will-the-supreme-court-let-sylvia-gonzalez-sue-the-political-enemies-who-engineered-her-arrest/
Left to their own devices, employers and workers will inevitably come to an answer that serves both of their interests. But that sort of mutually beneficial arrangement has never made politicians all that happy, as it invariably proves that people don’t need them all that much.
Every fast-food restaurant already has a form of dynamic pricing… You pay in the next-highest-valued use of your time, also known as opportunity cost. Predictable pricing does not mean predictable cost, which includes things like wait times at the drive-thru.
In a Jan. 30 decision, [Portage C]ounty court holds that the City of Kent’s restriction on the number of unrelated persons who may reside together to be unconstitutional. With the series of decisions from 2006 to present, the Ohio courts are cementing an OH-PA-NJ property rights judicial axis based upon … Continue reading Roommates Are Now Legal In Ohio
Why is the US Trade Representative opening the door to other countries slapping tariffs on e‑commerce that benefits American workers, American businesses, and American consumers? https://www.cato.org/blog/why-we-cant-have-nice-things-digital-trade-version
The real gains come from people moving to where their labor is more valuable — and that’s in high-income countries like the United States. The problem is, we rich Westerners won’t let them come. We consign them to lives of low productivity and the attendant poverty by building walls and … Continue reading How Rich People Create Poverty
Probably because Greg Flynn, who operates 24 of the bakery cafes in California, is a longtime friend of Gov. Gavin Newsom. The deeper lesson is that giving the government more power to set wages (or regulate other aspects of the economy) creates the conditions for exactly this sort of thing … Continue reading Why Is Panera Exempted From California’s New Minimum Wage Law?
