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California’s Anti-Green Land-Use Policies Increase Global Warming

March 28, 2019 – Randall Holcombe …… If Californians were really serious about mitigating global warming, their policies would be designed to encourage people to move to their state, where people’s carbon footprints are naturally lower because of the favorable climate. Instead, California has an anti-green environmental agenda that pushes people to live in places with higher carbon footprints. Continue reading →

This Way Toward Equality

March 27, 2019 – F.A. Harper …… Equalization of incomes can be accomplished only by moving down the road toward serfdom. Continue reading →

Bastiat on How the Modern State Commits the Very Evils It Was Created to Prevent

March 26, 2019 – Gary Galles …… The confusion about socialism derives in part from its traditional definition of government ownership of the means of production. Continue reading →

America Finally Admits Recycling Doesn’t Work

March 25, 2019 – Jon Miltimore …… It’s time to admit the recycling mania is a giant placebo. Continue reading →

Why Long Lines at Motor Vehicle Departments Never Disappear

March 24, 2019 – Barry Brownstein …… When millennials stand in MVA lines, do they wonder what their experience will be when the government takes a more significant role in their lives? Continue reading →

Are Libertarians Too Anti-Pollution?

March 23, 2019 – Ryan McMaken …… Contrary to the myth that libertarians favor limitless pollution by capitalists, libertarian legal regimes would often put polluters out of business. Continue reading →

Minimum Wage Hikes Increase Crime, National Bureau of Economic Research Study Finds

March 22, 2019 – Ryan Bourne …… When the government raises the minimum wage, this also increases property crime arrests among 16-24-year-olds — the group for whom the minimum wage is most likely to bite. Continue reading →

‘Captive State’ Probes Depths of Despair Under Oppression

March 21, 2019 – Samuel Staley …… The movie ‘Captive State’ challenges the view that citizens should simply accept their fate and the rule of their officials rather than live freely, even when they live in a democracy. Continue reading →

Guaranteed Income Versus Prohibited Income

March 20, 2019 – Lee Friday …… Welfare programs and wealth taxes: the government’s pretense of transferring a little bit of wealth from the rich to the poor is a smokescreen for the massive amount of wealth surreptitiously flowing in the opposite direction. Continue reading →

The Horrific Long-Term Consequences of Regime Change

March 18, 2019 – Jacob Hornberger …… The Guatemalan legislature is contemplating granting a blanket amnesty to military officials who participated in the rein of terror that the Guatemalan national-security establishment – supported by the U.S. national-security establishment – inflicted on the Guatemalan people for a period of some 36 years. Continue reading →