by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
On several occasions, I’ve shared horror stories of government brutality and asserted that all decent people should be libertarians. If you still are not convinced, today we’re going to look at seven stories about so-called civil asset forfeiture, which is a sanitized...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 26, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
Some types of theft are legal in America. But there’s a catch. You can only legally steal if you work for the government. It’s a process called “civil asset forfeiture” and it enables government officials to confiscate your property even if you have not been convicted...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 17, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Society
When writing about money laundering laws, I’ll sometimes highlight gross abuses by government and I’ll periodically make the usual libertarian arguments about privacy. But I mostly focus on how the laws simply don’t make sense from a cost-benefit perspective....
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 1, 2015 | Blogs, Crime, Society
Politicians and bureaucrats are very creative in their pursuit of bad policy. In some case, I’m not even sure how to classify their actions. When the government squandered $224,000-plus for research on condom sizes, for instance, I thought that story easily could be...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 28, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs
Notwithstanding the title of this post, I’m not going to make an ultra-libertarian argument that all taxation is theft. Instead, today’s topic is about a more specialized version of theft by government, which technically is called civil asset forfeiture but more...
