tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51582722754771620232024-03-13T07:47:57.198-07:00The Black Libertarian"I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted." - Frederick DouglassUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger208125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158272275477162023.post-31254559105769311572017-09-30T02:32:00.000-07:002017-09-30T02:32:27.257-07:00Black Liberty Matters ― Jacob T. Levy <span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">This was Samuel Johnson’s bitter rhetorical question about the American revolution, and the conflict it identifies has never been far from the surface of American political and intellectual life. Compared with the societies of 18th and 19th century Europe, the United States was unusually obsessed with the idea of liberty </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> unusually economically dependent on slave labor. Sometimes Americans like to tell ourselves that the revolutionary idea of liberty is what finally made abolition possible two generations later, but that sidesteps the paradox that the U.S. was one of the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">last </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">countries to abolish slavery, and did so only after a decades-long expansion.</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158272275477162023.post-56300255133598559252017-06-20T02:35:00.000-07:002017-06-20T02:35:00.990-07:00Kareim Oliphant ― White Supremacist Ideas Must Be Challenged, Not Ignored <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>To argue that incredibly bad ideas simply die on their own, especially if they go unopposed, and that these ideas have no potential to rise from relative obscurity to national (or even international) preeminence, is to argue in contravention of the historical record.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>As Communications Project Manager for the Institute for Justice, Anthony “Rek” LeCounte works hard to make the public case for economic liberty, free speech, private property rights, and school choice for all Americans.</i></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><a href="http://ij.org/staff/anthony-lecounte/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc6411;">The Institute for Justice</span></a></b> - Funeral services necessarily involve a difficult time for the consumers who need them, and the pain of loss can often be compounded by the logistical expenses involved. Unfortunately, the cost of funeral expenses is significantly higher when occupational licensing is involved.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">n a </span><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0144818817300078"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #cc6411;">new study</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> published in the June 2017 edition of the International Review of Law and Economics, Brandon Pizzola and Alexander Tabarrok use a “natural experiment” to show that occupational licensing requirements on funeral service providers increase the cost of workers and services. Conversely, the lack of such requirements decreases costs.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Colorado delicensed its funeral services industry in 1983, providing researchers an opportunity to compare the effects of the regulatory change in the state to national developments. Unsurprisingly, Pizzola and Tabarrok found that funeral costs fell in Colorado, compared with the rest of the United States, because licensing causes a “wage premium” of 11 to 12 percent due to lack of competition. This finding </span><a href="http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/05/death-occupational-licensing.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #cc6411;">echoes other research</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> that has shown licensing requirements in other industries lead to similar spikes in cost. Insiders, in funeral services and other industries, often support licensing requirements precisely for this reason: Licensing creates artificial “job protection” by making it harder for competition to drive down costs.</span><br /><div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158272275477162023.post-31781668722513830712016-11-07T14:15:00.001-08:002016-11-07T14:15:21.671-08:00Reginald Kaigler ― When Jobs Don't Pay! Big Pharma Price Gouging! Wikileaks Exposes Saudi Gov Funding Clinton, ISIS? <div style="text-align: center;">
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The horrific deaths of Philando Castillo in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, give us an updated and up-close glimpse of police encounters gone bad—but they are rooted in decades of problematic policing in America. "Historically in this country, the police have never really been the friends of the black community," says Neill Franklin, a former officer with the Baltimore Police Department and current executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (L.E.A.P).<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158272275477162023.post-74517631809208840382016-04-19T13:55:00.002-07:002016-04-19T13:56:38.375-07:00William N. Grigg — The Last Full Measure of Misery: When Will Prohibition Finally End? <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>In the service of a “law” that was routinely violated by those who enforced it, hundreds of thousands of lives would be changed dramatically for the worse – many of them ruined beyond repair. Thousands of people would die through violence either inflicted by agents of the state, or abetted by state policies that gave criminals a monopoly on what had previously been a competitive market.</em> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">“Our safety and happiness lie in obedience to law by every man, woman and child,” pontificated Attorney General </span>Harry <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Micajah Daugherty in his keynote address to the 1921 annual conference of the American Bar Association in Cincinnati. His homily on the supposed virtue of submission to the state was offered in the service of the crusade to “suppress the age-long evil of the liquor traffic,” a holy errand to which the assembled legal luminaries were firmly committed, at least while they were on the clock.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“After hours,” Edward Behr wryly observed in his book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8gAtAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT183&lpg=PT183&dq=Mencken+Prohibition+Black+Death&source=bl&ots=DN16TCYOim&sig=FzEnRd8dm0It1TzCGOStbUAN-1w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOnqXY4IrMAhVBOiYKHSsDC2AQ6AEIJTAB#v=onepage&q=Mencken%20Prohibition%20Black%20Death&f=false"><span style="color: #228ba3;">Prohibition: Thirteen Years that Changed America</span></a></i>, “many of those attending the meeting were haunting the speakeasies they denounced.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Everyone in Daugherty’s audience was aware that </span><a href="http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1378.html"><span style="color: #228ba3; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the Attorney General</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> was profiting handsomely from the kickbacks and other illicit emoluments that inevitably accompany prohibition. Most of them were likewise aware that Daugherty had selected Cincinnati as the site of the conference because its police and municipal court system were entirely controlled by </span><a href="http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/general/remus.htm"><span style="color: #228ba3; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">bootlegger George Remus</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> – who was among the Attorney General’s most generous benefactors. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Illinois’ criminal-justice system </span>should hold offenders accountable for their crimes. This happens through a loss of freedom during a prison sentence, probation and mandatory supervised release. But the criminal-justice system must also focus on helping offenders become self-sufficient, productive community members, so they do not continue to cycle in and out of the corrections system. The Illinois Constitution states, “All penalties shall be determined both according to the seriousness of the offense and with the objective of restoring the offender to useful citizenship.”<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s2" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 </span></span>When someone commits a crime, he or she should expect to suffer the consequences. But that person should also be expected to find employment, support his or her family, and become a responsible taxpayer after paying his or her debt to society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Right now, public policy undermines this goal. In fact, Illinois’ criminal-justice system continues to punish former offenders well after they’ve served their sentences – making them struggle to find work, reliant on welfare, and unable to build stable futures for their families. Former offenders face barriers in the form of occupational-licensing restrictions, loss of work skills during incarceration, and concerns of employers who may be reluctant to hire anyone with a criminal record – even when an ex-offender has reformed and would be a good fit for the job.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 24.64px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong>Read the full article<a href="https://www.illinoispolicy.org/reports/the-debt-never-paid/"> </a></strong><strong><a href="https://www.illinoispolicy.org/reports/the-debt-never-paid/">HERE</a></strong></span></span><strong style="font-family: tinos; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 24.64px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lifting millions of people in the developing world out of poverty is worth the economic dislocation that global competition causes in wealthy countries.</span>
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