The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms doesn’t extend to arms that aren’t typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes. Law-abiding citizens don’t typically possess firearms with obliterated serial numbers for lawful purposes, so Mr. Reyna’s indictment and guilty plea don’t offend the Second Amendment.
Judge Robert Miller, Jr., U.S. v. Reyna
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Subsidies To Help Workers Would Hurt Poor People
Some people would benefit. Others would lose money or be rendered unemployable.
Workers’ best friend is a labor market that’s free of harmful government distortions. Such a market will not only oblige employers to continue to pay workers according to productivity but will also intensify firms’ efforts to become more productive.
https://reason.com/2022/12/15/subsidies-to-help-workers-would-hurt-poor-people/
The Supreme Court Should End Chevron Deference
Chevron is unconstitutional for several reasons. It gives judicial power—the power to interpret the meaning of the law—to the administrative state within the Executive Branch. The Constitution, however, grants all judicial power to the Judicial Branch. Chevron is also unconstitutional because it biases the courts towards the agencies, stripping the judiciary of impartiality and denying litigants basic due process. But a third reason, and the focus of our brief, is that Chevron deference is ahistorical, arising not out of the original understanding of the Constitution but rather out of the administrative bloat of the New Deal era.
https://www.cato.org/blog/supreme-court-should-end-chevron-deference
What’s Next for America’s Independent Workers?
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
‘MyPlate,’ the USDA’s ‘Food Pyramid’ Replacement, Is Also a Dud
The federal government continues to be very bad at telling people what and how to eat
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.
Biden’s Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Plan Just Faced Its Third Major Setback in a Month
On Wednesday, a federal appeals court denied the Biden administration’s request to block a Texas judge’s ruling that declared the policy unconstitutional.
Federal Taxes: 1958 and 2019
Even though the top statutory individual income tax rate has fallen from 91 percent in 1958 to 37 percent today, overall federal taxes appear to be far more “progressive” today than in the past.
The Federal Government’s Plan to Track Truckers’ Every Movement Is a Privacy Nightmare
This surveillance would be unconstitutional—and there’s no reason to believe it will make anyone safer.
The Beauty of Gridlock
It is true that gridlock may prevent the adoption of potentially good legislation or the repeal of bad legislation, but this is still better than tyranny.
Go With the Regs or Go to Jail
The Miller’s Organic Farm Case: Part 1
Last summer, armed federal agents sent by the USDA demanded that Miller cease operations and prepared to hit him with more than $300,000 in fines. … The farm was ordered to pay the fine within 30 days or face further penalties “including imprisonment of Amos Miller.”