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Shocker: Danes Learn Tax On Fat Doesn’t Work
The neo-prohibitionists don’t try to ban things as they try to tax them to death. But tax policy is static. Markets are dynamic. When the government institutes taxes, people react not by modifying...
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Just In Case You Thought The Nanny Statists Weren’t Prohibitionists
Fat is the new smoking, and guess what makes you fat? Booze. So clearly we need to regulate booze just like the vending machines and the large-size sodas, right? Because it worked out so well the last...
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The End Of Prohibition?
Here’s the cover of this month’s New York magazine declaring the “End of Prohibition,” a reference to the vote by multiple states to legalize marijuana use. There’s a lot of irony in that cover. Yes,...
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Congress’ Favorite Bootlegger
It was 79 years ago today that America repealed one of its biggest mistakes, the prohibition of alcohol. In commemoration of that day, Reason is telling of “The Man in the Green Hat.” He was George...
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If You Want To Lower Gun Crime, End The War On Drugs
In The Atlantic, Noah Smith details some fascinating numbers about gun crimes. Many anti-gun activists and commentators have cited a study which suggests that gun deaths will surpass traffic deaths by...
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North Dakota Town Bans Booze Sales To “Habitual Drunkards”
I’m not sure how I feel about this: Police in the northeastern North Dakota city of Devils Lake have barred businesses from selling alcohol to area residents who have been jailed repeatedly in the past...
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Due To High Taxes, Sixty Percent Of New York Cigarettes Are Bootlegged
Wow: A new study released by the Tax Foundation shows that over 60 percent of cigarettes are smuggled in to New York to avoid the state’s high cigarette taxes. The smuggled cigarettes are usually...
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After Decriminalizing Drug Use, Drug Abuse Falls By Half In Portugal
America’s “war on drugs” is a losing battle. Despite trillions spent, and countless lives lost, drugs are about as accessible in America as they’ve ever been. You’d think this would be a good argument...
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America Has Tobacco Prohibition Through Regulation
Most Americans don’t like tobacco use. That’s why state after state, city after city, has passed increasingly aggressive bans on tobacco use. The proponents of this sort of policy bristle when they’re...
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California Legalizes Pot, Drug Dealers Move To New York
There’s a fascinating lesson in the economics of prohibition to be learned from this report of a drug dealer who moved from California, where marijuana is basically legal, to New York where it remains...
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Free Markets And Piracy
This weekend the latest season of Game of Thrones premiered on HBO, and online the show – which already has the dubious honor of being the most stolen television show in the world – promptly set a...
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North Dakota House Votes To Legalize Election Day Campaigning
Last year former NDGOP Chairman Gary Emineth filed a lawsuit over a state law which prohibits political speech on election day. The law, which is so broad it make everything from political yard signs...
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Democrat: We Must Ban Private Gun Sales Because Terrorism
According to Senator Diane Feinstein, we can’t let one person sell a gun privately to another person because the buyer might be a terrorist. She’s also saying that defeating the Senate filibuster of...
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Hoeven, Heitkamp Vote To Make Internet Shopping More Expensive
The US Senate just passed the misnamed Marketplace Fairness Act on a 69-27 vote. Both of North Dakota’s Senators, John Hoeven and Heidi Heitkamp, voted for the bill which allows states to collect sales...
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North Dakota Has The Highest Number Of Bars Per Capita
According to data compiled by the Helena Independent Record, North Dakota has a total of 422 bars, an average of one bar for every 1,500 people. That’s the highest state-level concentration in the...
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To Lower Crime At Colleges, Eliminate Underage Drinking Laws
I’ve long been an advocate for getting rid of age restrictions on alcohol consumption. By postponing the ability of younger Americans to use alcohol until age 21 – a ridiculous age given that you can...
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Defense Of Marriage Act
The Supreme Court today struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, a Clinton-era federal law which disallowed the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage and also prohibited inter-state...
View ArticleCemeteries want to bury WI’s death services law
By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter MADISON — It was Benjamin Franklin who coined the sardonic proverb, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” In Wisconsin, you can...
View ArticleTexas Medical Board considers arming itself
This isn’t what Texas Medical Board investigators are doing, yet. By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org HOUSTON – In England, most police still don’t carry guns, even doing dangerous stuff like going on raids...
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FDA To Ban Menthol Cigarettes Because People Like Them
The end of menthol cigarettes may be near as the FDA is moving to ban the product. The FDA’s reasoning? According to a recent review, it’s not that the menthols are any more dangerous than other types...
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