Jon Sanders
Contributor
Jon Sanders is an economist and the director of the Center for Food, Power, and Life at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he also serves as research editor. The center focuses on protecting and expanding freedom in the vital areas of agriculture, energy, and the environment.
Follow him on Twitter @jonpsanders
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The Devil Didn’t Make ’Em Do It, and Neither Did the Pandemic
“Believing Covid shuts down businesses, closes schools, causes substance abuse, requires emergency orders, and so forth requires the unstated presumption that individuals are not the ones choosing. It’s a signature fallacy in the Covid era, and one that I had thought people would have given up by now.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Biden’s Gambit: Actively Testing Americans’ Willingness to Assert Their Rights
“The lesson here is, if you have moral rights and legal rights, defend them so that they are also your actual rights. As John Stuart Mill observed, ‘Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.'” ~ Jon Sanders
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Opportunity Costs and the Economic Impact Report: They Didn’t See That Coming
“Good reporting helps people because they intuitively understand cost overruns are bad. What would also help people are more council members and commissioners who know to ask about what is not seen: opportunity costs.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Stronger, More Robust Natural Immunity Thwarts Any Case for “Vaccine Passports”
“Even taken on their own merits, these prohibitions amount to nothing more than a coin flip against each and every person turned away. Considered in full, they are cruel, discriminatory, and ultimately self-defeating.” ~ Jon Sanders
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A Tale of Two Spikes: How the Tullock Spike Gives Insight Into a Viral Spike Amid Forced Mask-Wearing
“Let us hope for once that President Biden and the various state governors and health officials leave people free to assess their own risks and adjust their own behaviors as best makes sense to them.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Why Is There Such Reluctance to Discuss Natural Immunity?
“Whatever the reason, it’s keeping Americans in the dark about how many people have active immunity from Covid-19. It’s keeping people needlessly fearful and suspicious of each other. It’s empowering executive overreach. Worst of all, it’s tempting people to consider government and business restrictions on the unvaccinated, regardless of their actual immunity.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Biden and the Lockdown Governors Need Canute thinking
“No wonder the Central Planners are angry and scared. Benjamin Franklin warned, ‘They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.’ Heaven help us if we prove him right, accepting government mask mandates and personal restrictions ironically for ‘feelings of empowerment.'” ~ Jon Sanders
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Price-gouged and Happy About It
“When the anti–price gouging law is in effect, being able to buy a necessity here is a matter of timing: being on store premises at or shortly after a shipment arrives. Then you can buy it, and not even at the market price, but at the pre-emergency price enforced by the government. Everyone else is…
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The Devil Didn’t Make ’Em Do It, and Neither Did the Pandemic
“Believing Covid shuts down businesses, closes schools, causes substance abuse, requires emergency orders, and so forth requires the unstated presumption that individuals are not the ones choosing. It’s a signature fallacy in the Covid era, and one that I had thought people would have given up by now.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Biden’s Gambit: Actively Testing Americans’ Willingness to Assert Their Rights
“The lesson here is, if you have moral rights and legal rights, defend them so that they are also your actual rights. As John Stuart Mill observed, ‘Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.'” ~ Jon Sanders
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Opportunity Costs and the Economic Impact Report: They Didn’t See That Coming
“Good reporting helps people because they intuitively understand cost overruns are bad. What would also help people are more council members and commissioners who know to ask about what is not seen: opportunity costs.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Stronger, More Robust Natural Immunity Thwarts Any Case for “Vaccine Passports”
“Even taken on their own merits, these prohibitions amount to nothing more than a coin flip against each and every person turned away. Considered in full, they are cruel, discriminatory, and ultimately self-defeating.” ~ Jon Sanders
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A Tale of Two Spikes: How the Tullock Spike Gives Insight Into a Viral Spike Amid Forced Mask-Wearing
“Let us hope for once that President Biden and the various state governors and health officials leave people free to assess their own risks and adjust their own behaviors as best makes sense to them.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Why Is There Such Reluctance to Discuss Natural Immunity?
“Whatever the reason, it’s keeping Americans in the dark about how many people have active immunity from Covid-19. It’s keeping people needlessly fearful and suspicious of each other. It’s empowering executive overreach. Worst of all, it’s tempting people to consider government and business restrictions on the unvaccinated, regardless of their actual immunity.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Biden and the Lockdown Governors Need Canute thinking
“No wonder the Central Planners are angry and scared. Benjamin Franklin warned, ‘They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.’ Heaven help us if we prove him right, accepting government mask mandates and personal restrictions ironically for ‘feelings of empowerment.'” ~ Jon Sanders
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Price-gouged and Happy About It
“When the anti–price gouging law is in effect, being able to buy a necessity here is a matter of timing: being on store premises at or shortly after a shipment arrives. Then you can buy it, and not even at the market price, but at the pre-emergency price enforced by the government. Everyone else is…