Farm subsidies encourage farmers to be inefficient and wasteful. Moreover, subsidies mostly benefit large farms and landowners, and not the "small family farms" we're told the subsidies protect.
Since Libra is an extended arm of the current financial system, first-world economies could benefit at the cost of developing economies.
Firearm sound suppressors are nothing like they are portrayed in Hollywood movies. Also, they are already heavily regulated by federal officials. Efforts to ban them are nothing more than political posturing.
The most alarming of the projections of climate change damages rely on naïve assumptions about human adaptability.
One of the most instructive of all examples from maritime history is that of privateering, that is, the employment of profit-seeking, private armed ships during wartime.
"Here's the problem. If you give government a job to do, even one that seems justified in the abstract, it will use its power to make a terrible mess in practice."
The vast majority of recorded hate crimes fall into a number of activities that normally fall under misdemeanor or even civil categories. The real and far-more-common threat continues to be regular ol' ordinary violent crime.
Federal labor laws increase monopoly power, reduce competition, and void free association, all in the name of "workers' rights."
The “boom-bust” cycle is generated by monetary intervention in the market, specifically bank credit expansion to business.
Socialism and capitalism offer radically different solutions to the problem posed by scarcity.
