Regulation
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Drunk Driving and Fake Science
The combination of state power and pseudoscience is a dangerous one. Criminalizing something that depends on the scientific accuracy of some secret test rather than observable behavior is itself fraught with dangers.
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Elizabeth Warren’s Anti-Consumer Plan to Break Up Big Tech
Should Senator Warren or others choose to apply a decades-old rulebook to split up or regulate Amazon and Google, their lack of innovation risks costing consumers dearly.
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Banking with the Amish
Americans don’t need government plans to solve problems; they just need to be allowed to innovate without undue restriction in an environment where property rights find sufficient protection.
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NCAA Must Evolve, or Go Extinct
California’s recent Fair Pay for Play bill isn’t the best way of reforming college sports, but it does force the NCAA to make a stark choice: evolve or go extinct. Either way, it’s time for change.
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A Country Is Not a Private Club
Private clubs are voluntary associations. Opting out of citizenship altogether is not a realistic option.
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Maybe It’s Good that People Assume that Politicians are Corrupt
There are no angels and certainly no saviors in this saga.
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The FDA Created Illegal and Dangerous Vapes
The scale of the freak-out by governments around the U.S., and by Trump’s FDA, which make no sense.
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Trump’s New Overtime Pay Rules Hurt the Little Guy
If the goal is to hurt the poor while benefiting large corporations, adding even more wage-related requirements to our labor code is the way to go.
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The Vaping “Crisis” is an Opportunity to Rethink Government Bans
All too often, alternatives to government bans are difficult to name offhand not because they don’t exist but because we haven’t asked. Perhaps this is our opportunity to do better.
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Firearms and the Problem of Rights
Even if we somehow magically made all the guns go away, a few of our laziest, dullest mass murders might be deterred, but many would deploy instead even deadlier and more indiscriminate weapons of mass murder.
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Drunk Driving and Fake Science
The combination of state power and pseudoscience is a dangerous one. Criminalizing something that depends on the scientific accuracy of some secret test rather than observable behavior is itself fraught with dangers.
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Elizabeth Warren’s Anti-Consumer Plan to Break Up Big Tech
Should Senator Warren or others choose to apply a decades-old rulebook to split up or regulate Amazon and Google, their lack of innovation risks costing consumers dearly.
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•
Banking with the Amish
Americans don’t need government plans to solve problems; they just need to be allowed to innovate without undue restriction in an environment where property rights find sufficient protection.
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•
NCAA Must Evolve, or Go Extinct
California’s recent Fair Pay for Play bill isn’t the best way of reforming college sports, but it does force the NCAA to make a stark choice: evolve or go extinct. Either way, it’s time for change.
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A Country Is Not a Private Club
Private clubs are voluntary associations. Opting out of citizenship altogether is not a realistic option.
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Maybe It’s Good that People Assume that Politicians are Corrupt
There are no angels and certainly no saviors in this saga.
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•
The FDA Created Illegal and Dangerous Vapes
The scale of the freak-out by governments around the U.S., and by Trump’s FDA, which make no sense.
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Trump’s New Overtime Pay Rules Hurt the Little Guy
If the goal is to hurt the poor while benefiting large corporations, adding even more wage-related requirements to our labor code is the way to go.
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The Vaping “Crisis” is an Opportunity to Rethink Government Bans
All too often, alternatives to government bans are difficult to name offhand not because they don’t exist but because we haven’t asked. Perhaps this is our opportunity to do better.
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Firearms and the Problem of Rights
Even if we somehow magically made all the guns go away, a few of our laziest, dullest mass murders might be deterred, but many would deploy instead even deadlier and more indiscriminate weapons of mass murder.