by Dan Mitchell | Feb 10, 2017 | Blogs, Crime, Society
The libertarian approach to crime is both simple and sensible. First, only activities that harm other people should be against the law. So get rid of laws against drugs, gambling, cash deposits, and other victimless crimes. Second, make sure that government behaves...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Financial Privacy, Society, Tax Havens, Taxation
The War against Cash is a battle that shouldn’t even exist. But politicians don’t like cash because it’s hard to control something that people can freely trade back and forth. So folks on the left are arguing that governments should ban or restrict paper money. In...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 1, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Privacy
One of the big challenges for libertarians is that we understand “public choice theory.” In other words, we know that people attracted to government will have both the incentive and the power to do bad things, so our quandary is how to give government the authority to...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Society
Elizabeth Barrett Browning started her famous sonnet with “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” and then proceeded to provide lots of examples If I had similar talent, I would produce a sonnet that began “How is the Drug War a failure? Let me count the ways”...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 5, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Economics, Society
I thought it was a remarkable development last year when a columnist from the New York Times reported that supposedly pro-feminist policies actually backfire against women. Maybe this would help readers recognize that there are adverse unintended consequences of...
