Watts’ lawyer, Traci Timko, said in an Associated Press story in December that her client was sitting at St. Joseph Warren Hospital for eight hours awaiting treatment while officials there tried to decide how to treat the symptoms of her pregnancy under Ohio’s abortion laws.
Author: Libertarians of Montgomery
Inflation Hit Some States Harder
Inflation wiped out economic growth in most states last year. Adjusting for inflation, only five states had positive personal income growth last year: North Dakota, Delaware, South Dakota, Montana, and Alaska. Rhode Island, Oregon, DC, Mississippi, and New Hampshire all saw real personal incomes drop by more than eight percent.
State policy has a lot to do with why some states saw more inflation than others. Local land-use regulations that restrict home-building drive up the cost of housing, the largest part of the consumer price index. New Hampshire’s eye-popping inflation rate was driven by housing costs, which also rose at the nation’s fastest pace.
https://www.aier.org/article/inflation-hit-some-states-harder/
Study Estimates Roadside Drug Tests Result in 30,000 Wrongful Arrests Every Year
…as many as 30,000 innocent people a year may be wrongly arrested for drug possession based on their results, making these tests “one of the largest, if not the largest, known contributing factor to wrongful arrests and convictions in the United States.”
212 people pleaded guilty between January 2004 and June 2015 to drug possession based on Houston Police Department field tests that were later invalidated by crime labs.
2023 Was a Record Year for Public Schooling Culture War
By forcing people with diverse values and desires to fund a single system of government schools, public schooling always has fostered divisive conflict, and always will.
https://www.cato.org/blog/2023-was-record-year-public-schooling-culture-war
Capitalism Is Impersonal, Not Soulless
The same condition that makes it possible for this increased specialization to occur also makes it impossible for any individual in this economy to know personally all the other individuals with whom he economically interacts.
As Some Workers Try to Free Themselves from Unionization, Biden Officials Try to Dragoon More In
Whether a worker wants union representation ought to be an individual decision. The federal and state laws that turn it into a collective decision should never have been passed and after they were passed, should have been declared unconstitutional.
The Ongoing Legal Battle: Biometrics, 5th Amendment, and Phone Decryption
With modern smartphones, screen locks like passcodes or biometric locks, such as fingerprint or facial recognition, encrypt the data on the phone. This encryption means that the data from the phone’s hard drive is largely inaccessible without the screen being unlocked, making this issue all the more potent.
Still Failing to Learn the Lessons of Antipoverty Programs
One of the lesser-known realities of the War on Poverty was that while poverty rates were falling substantially before it began, that progress came to an abrupt halt, fantastically, with its implementation.
California Would Have Low-Cost Housing If Government Allowed It: The Mortenson Experiment
Inexpensive housing would be built in California if government allowed it. Instead, streets teem with 151,000 homeless people, a human and moral tragedy caused, in part, by government barriers to housing development in California.
A Police Group’s Comments on Civil Asset Forfeiture Show Exactly Why It Needs Reform
A core principle of the American legal system is that you should be free to go about your business without having to show your papers.