Government
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When Government Separates Choices from Consequences
From tariffs to “free” public services, government policies routinely transfer the costs and consequences of individual choices onto someone else.
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Congress Reformed Welfare. Bureaucrats Regrew It Anyway
Voters demanded the 1996 welfare reform law that limited eligibility and emphasized work. Since then, executive agencies have used their discretion to quietly loosen those rules.
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America’s Public Schools Have an Empty-Desk Problem
Chronic absenteeism is soaring. The government school monopoly has few incentives to change.
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When Paris Went Hungry Under Government Food Controls
During the French Revolution, authorities in Paris turned to “a series of ventures in price-fixing and food control” to ensure people did not go hungry. It didn’t work as planned.
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What Slaughtered Pigs Can Teach Us About Europe’s Wine Policy
There’s a senselessness to Europe’s attempt to manage wine supply and dictate prices that echoes the New Deal’s effort to alleviate poverty by destroying millions of pigs.
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The FCC Denies Right to Fair Trial
Closed administrative courts with no impartial reviewers were overruled in SEC v. Jarkesy. Strangely, FCC procedures won’t get the same scrutiny.
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Flock Cameras vs. Freedom: Welcome to the Warrantless Panopticon
Flock cameras promise easier policing by destroying the Fourth Amendment — creating a permanent, searchable, warrantless database of everywhere Americans go.
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What’s Worse — Authoritarian Capitalism or Democratic Socialism?
Dictatorship is always a tragedy. But history suggests that a tyrant who allows markets does far less damage than one who abolishes them.
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Tariffs Didn’t Rebuild Factories. They Fueled a Lobbying Boom.
When government decides who pays and who is exempt, businesses rationally redirect resources from investment to lobbying and favor seeking.
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Britain’s Problems Didn’t Begin with Brexit
Brexit disappointed both its critics and supporters, but Britain’s economic malaise runs much deeper than the 2016 referendum.
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When Government Separates Choices from Consequences
From tariffs to “free” public services, government policies routinely transfer the costs and consequences of individual choices onto someone else.
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•
Congress Reformed Welfare. Bureaucrats Regrew It Anyway
Voters demanded the 1996 welfare reform law that limited eligibility and emphasized work. Since then, executive agencies have used their discretion to quietly loosen those rules.
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America’s Public Schools Have an Empty-Desk Problem
Chronic absenteeism is soaring. The government school monopoly has few incentives to change.
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When Paris Went Hungry Under Government Food Controls
During the French Revolution, authorities in Paris turned to “a series of ventures in price-fixing and food control” to ensure people did not go hungry. It didn’t work as planned.
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What Slaughtered Pigs Can Teach Us About Europe’s Wine Policy
There’s a senselessness to Europe’s attempt to manage wine supply and dictate prices that echoes the New Deal’s effort to alleviate poverty by destroying millions of pigs.
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The FCC Denies Right to Fair Trial
Closed administrative courts with no impartial reviewers were overruled in SEC v. Jarkesy. Strangely, FCC procedures won’t get the same scrutiny.
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Flock Cameras vs. Freedom: Welcome to the Warrantless Panopticon
Flock cameras promise easier policing by destroying the Fourth Amendment — creating a permanent, searchable, warrantless database of everywhere Americans go.
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What’s Worse — Authoritarian Capitalism or Democratic Socialism?
Dictatorship is always a tragedy. But history suggests that a tyrant who allows markets does far less damage than one who abolishes them.
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•
Tariffs Didn’t Rebuild Factories. They Fueled a Lobbying Boom.
When government decides who pays and who is exempt, businesses rationally redirect resources from investment to lobbying and favor seeking.
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Britain’s Problems Didn’t Begin with Brexit
Brexit disappointed both its critics and supporters, but Britain’s economic malaise runs much deeper than the 2016 referendum.