Aaron Tao

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Your Government-Approved Diet May Kill You

05/22/2015 Mises Daily Aaron Tao

Billions of tax dollars have been spent on scientific studies and public programs designed to tell Americans what to eat and how to be healthy. The experiment has failed, and we have nothing to show for it.

Reading the Road Map to a Police State

10/18/2014 Mises Daily Aaron Tao

In this review of Radley Balko's Rise of the Warrior Cop Aaron Tao examines the history of government policing, rights that have been lost, and the symbiotic relationship between the police state and the war on drugs.

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