By Ilya Shapiro
The collusion between big business and big government that fleeces the rest of us has struck again — Tim Carney, iMessage your office – this time in the sports world. Minnesota governor Mark Dayton recently signed the midnight deal that state lawmakers struck with the owners of the state’s football team, the Minnesota Vikings, to build the team [...]
Public Financing of Vikings Stadium a Bad Deal for Fans, Taxpayers is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Tim Lynch
Today, Cato is launching a new web site, PoliceMisconduct.net, which is one component of our new National Police Misconduct Reporting Project. We will be tracking news stories concerning misconduct so policymakers can make more informed assessments of its nature and circumstances. Our objective is to identify policies that consistently uphold high standards of ethics, honesty, and professionalism [...]
PoliceMisconduct.Net Launch is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
On May 11, the Department of Health & Human Services finalized rules requiring insurers to tell any of their customers who get premium rebates this summer that the windfall comes …
Obamacare’s Constitutional Defects, First Amendment Division is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By John Samples
Maybe not. I have just published an essay at the Liberty Fund’s Liberty Forum on the fall and rise of Congress since 1960.
The essay takes off from James Burnham’s book …
Is Congress Doomed? is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Walter Olson
We at the Cato Institute have warned time and time again of the dangers of civil forfeiture laws, which empower law enforcement authorities to seize cars, money, houses and office …
Civil Asset Forfeiture and the ‘Piratical’ State is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Jim Harper
We were all very excited about the Facebook IPO last week (I guess), and Washington, D.C. wants to have its part in the action. This Politico article, “Facebook IPO Pits …
Joe Barton, Meet Alessandro Acquisti is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Trevor Burrus
Available today is my new policy analysis, “If You Love Something, Set it Free: A Case for Defunding Public Broadcasting.” As a long-time fan of public broadcasting, particularly NPR, it has …
If You Love Something, Set It Free: A Case for Defunding Public Broadcasting is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Andrew J. Coulson
Since 2005, the Census Bureau has administered a set of probing questions to a large random sample of Americans each year. It’s called the American Community Survey, participation is mandatory, …
‘Useful’ Idiots and the American Community Survey is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Michael F. Cannon
Richard Thaler writes in the New York Times: Justice Scalia is arguing that if the court lets Congress create a mandate to buy health insurance, nothing could stop Congress from passing laws requiring everyone to buy broccoli and to join a gym…Can anyone imagine Congress passing a broccoli mandate law, much less the court allowing it to take [...]
Stop Using Slippery-Slope Arguments? Where Would that End? is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
While perhaps more identified with eating than drinking, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie — who headlined Cato’s recent Milton Friedman Prize Dinner — signed a law in January that allowed out-of-state winemakers to sell directly to in-state consumers and retailers. This wasn’t a spontaneous bit of New Year’s bonhomie — the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
Chris Christie Allows New Jerseyans to Quaff Better Wine is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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