Insider Trading and Taxes: The State Wants to Read Your Mind
The state at all levels is unable to legislate against intent despite its best efforts.
The state at all levels is unable to legislate against intent despite its best efforts.
Allow discrimination for anybody for any reason so that those who discriminate for the "wrong" reasons are naturally removed from the market.
Even if consumer protection regulation is motivated by good intentions, it inevitably undermines competition and consumer welfare.
Government policing is, after all, a government program. It should be treated accordingly.
Because policing is heavily subsidized by taxpayers, people call the police far more than they would otherwise.
Many encounters will police escalate to the point of violence because the list of criminal offenses is so long, and the penalties are so draconian.
There are two sets of rules that function in America. One set for the political class, and another set for everyone else.
This week has been marked by devastating illustrations of why so much of the public distrusts the institutions of the state.
Never constitutional, the FBI was formed to compete against more effective private agencies. It now functions to wage political war against its enemies and protect its own interests.