Todd Seavey

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You Can’t Defund the Police without Defunding the Government

06/16/2020 Power & Market Todd Seavey

The truth is that all government programs and all laws cease to be enforceable if police truly go away, but it must be recognized that the practical answers about how to provide services, including eternally necessary police services, after the Great Defunding will have to come from libertarian thinking.

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