All Cops Are Bad?
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Antitrust law is being touted as an answer to our inflationary economy. Unfortunately, as Austrians have noted, antitrust law does nothing to bolster competition and actually makes the economy less competitive.
In 1887 Texas was hit with a severe drought that killed many crops and cattle. Congress attempted to pass a bill to provide $10,000 in relief to purchase seeds to help the farmers recover. Despite believing the bill to be well intentioned, Grover Cleveland vetoed it because nothing in the Constitution permitted it, and he believed private charity was the better solution to help Americans in need, as opposed to the government. “I can find no warrant for […]
“Production is not an act of creation; it does not bring about something that did not exist before. It is a transformation of given elements through arrangement and combination. The producer is not a creator. Man is creative only in thinking and in the realm of imagination. In the world of external phenomena he is only a transformer. All that he can accomplish is to combine the means available in such a way that according to the laws […]
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In the first decision of its kind in Nevada, a judge ruled last week that state law enforcement can’t evade stricter requirements for seizing cash and property by partnering with the federal government. The plaintiff in that lawsuit, a Marine veteran named Stephen Lara, had nearly $90,000 in cash seized from him in 2021 by two Nevada Highway Patrol officers. The cops admitted to Lara that there was nothing illegal about carrying large amounts of cash. But they […]
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