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Relevance: 100% Posted on: October 28, 2009
You are “innocent until proven guilty” in America, with one big exception: Under civil forfeiture laws, police don’t have to prove that a crime has actually been committed in order to seize your property. And once your boat or car is stolen by your government, the burden falls to you…
Relevance: 80% Posted on: October 14, 2008
Interior design: Most homeowners wing it, but a few call in the professionals. Regulation of interior design: Most states just let our nation’s Graces freely contract with willing Wills. But a significant number of states, including Oklahoma and Connecticut, regulate these designing women and men. Why? Have you heard a…
Relevance: 75% Posted on: August 26, 2022
Q. What is that fundamental principle?A. It is justice, which alone comprises all the virtues of society.Q. Why do you say that justice is the fundamental and almost only virtue of society?A. Because it alone embraces the practice of all the actions useful to it; and because all the other…
Relevance: 73% Posted on: January 13, 2014
Is taking bread from the mouths of those who labor to feed the appetites of able-bodied adults who decline to work your idea of economic justice? Or of injustice? A recent Cato Institute study by Michael Tanner and Charles Hughes found that welfare benefits exceed the minimum wage for workers…
Relevance: 71% Posted on: June 6, 2022
Michigan’s lawmakers and governor seem determined to remind us that history is no nonstop march into the light. In the Great Lake State, the latest confirmation is a return to virtually unrestricted legalized cash-grabbing at the airport, reversing halfhearted reforms of several years earlier. After those reforms were enacted, a…
Relevance: 71% Posted on: April 4, 2023
In August 2020, Jerry Johnson made a mistake: he carried a large sum of money while flying from Charlotte to Phoenix to buy a semi truck for his business. Police grabbed the cash when he arrived in Phoenix. Mr. Johnson had decided to use cash to avoid certain fees and…
Relevance: 71% Posted on: July 14, 2010
Some of the most vicious threats to individual rights and liberty occur not on the federal but on the local level. Clint Bolick, an attorney who has combated many local governmental assaults on citizens around the country, once wrote a book to make the point entitled Leviathan: The Growth of…
Relevance: 70% Posted on: August 22, 2008
How does the marketplace of ideas — and how do people who generally support free speech — react to the advancement of free-market ideas? Well, the new Milton Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago has sure kicked up a fuss. That is, a whole bunch of anti-free-marketers have kicked…
Relevance: 69% Posted on: February 19, 2018
“Carrying cash is not a crime,” Institute for Justice attorney Dan Alban informs us, “yet too often the government treats it like one.” Musician Phil Parhamovich learned that the hard way. He was porting his life savings, almost $92,000 — earmarked for a down payment on a recording studio —…
Relevance: 65% Posted on: November 2, 2023
“We know there are abuses of the forfeiture system,” Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declares. “We know it because it’s been documented throughout the country repeatedly.” Civil asset forfeiture is a crime — if a legal one. I’ve devoted numerous columns to it, here, these past few decades. Interestingly, there’s…
Relevance: 64% Posted on: March 4, 2018
Sometimes law is just politics. But must it be so? Make a motion over to Townhall, and then make your appeal back here. Washington Post: Scalia embraced compromise on unions. Today’s Supreme Court should, too. (editorial) Liberty Justice Center: Janus v. AFSCME SCOTUS: Oral Argument (Audio ) (Transcript) Illinois Policy…
Relevance: 63% Posted on: September 12, 2013
Would you be upset if you had to pay “too little” for a limo ride? Me neither. Nevertheless, the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission requires limo drivers to charge a minimum of $50 per ride, no matter how brief the ride may be. In 2001, Florida lawmakers foolishly empowered the…
Relevance: 62% Posted on: March 22, 2012
The taxman puts his hands in our pockets. But it’s one thing to reach into our bank accounts and take our money, it is quite another when governments engage in different kind of overreach, where they go beyond the rule of law and just start pushing people around. Take the…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: December 31, 2011
Punching fog, warming up fuzzy phrases, and understanding "social justice": "Society" is neither omniscient nor omnipotent. The justice society can provide cannot require either complete knowledge or total power. Pretending it can, or should, is pure folly.
Relevance: 61% Posted on: March 8, 2023
Justice is indiscriminately due to all, without regard to numbers, wealth, or rank. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay, Georgia v. Brailsford (1794).
Relevance: 61% Posted on: July 21, 2010
Let a thousand floral arrangements bloom. Louisiana has just abolished the “demonstration” section of the state’s licensing exam for florists. The new law came in response to a lawsuit by florists working with the Institute for Justice. IJ argued that the four-hour demonstration requirement was “arbitrary, subjective and antiquated,” and…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: November 23, 2022
In 2014, Sally Ladd started a service to help clients in the Poconos rent out their vacation homes. She posted notices on Airbnb, arranged for cleaning, and performed other chores. But then, in 2017, the Pennsylvania Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs — one of the many government agencies in…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: April 9, 2017
The IRS doesn’t just seize money for reasons of taxation. The folks in that agency have another racket in their job description. Click on over to Townhall for the story, then come back here for background. Treasury.gov: “Criminal Investigation Enforced Structuring Laws Primarily Against Legal Source Funds and Compromised the…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: February 5, 2014
The Socialists say, since the law organizes justice, why should it not organize labor, instruction, and religion? Why? Because it could not organize labor, instruction, and religion, without disorganizing justice.
Relevance: 57% Posted on: June 18, 2001
If there's anything worse than a cover-up of terrible crimes, it's a cover-up by the officials entrusted with investigating the cover-up. That may well be what has happened in the case of the federal assault on a religious group in Waco, Texas in 1993, which ended in the deaths of…