A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) discusses how anti-money laundering laws, which require banks to snoop on their customers, are costly and ineffective. Entitled “Making Banks Spy on Their Customers is Not Effective Crime Fighting: The Failure of Anti-Money Laundering Laws,” the mini-documentary explains that these laws [...]
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The Failure of Anti-Money Laundering Laws
Also posted in Privacy Tagged Anti-Money Laundering Laws, Cato Institute, Center for Freedom and Prosperity, Dan Mitchell 2 Comments
Richard Epstein: The Reid Bill Is Blatantly Unconstitutional
By Andrew McCarthy at National Review Online on December 23, 2009 – better late than never! At PointOfLaw.com, the distinguished University of Chicago constitutional scholar Richard Epstein provides a painstaking, withering analysis of the healthcare legislation wending its way through the Senate. He concludes that it is clearly unconstitutional. The essay is lengthy and, in [...]
Also posted in Health Care, Socialized Medicine Tagged Andy McCarthy, Bill of Rights, Constitution, Healthcare Insurance, Obamacare, Richard Epstien, Supreme Court Leave a comment
New Era of Unlimited Federal Power
Posted by Chris Edwards on Cato@Liberty The House has passed a measure imposing a special punitive tax of 90% on certain employee compensation in response to the AIG scandal. As others have noted, this raises serious constitutional issues. Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 says simply and directly: “No Bill of Attainder or ex post [...]
“Bind Him Down from Mischief by the Chains of the Constitution”
“ In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson For those of us who love individual liberty, free-markets and limited government, we face each day, burdened, with more news of the march toward socialism and the [...]
Where Does Economic Change Come From?
Recent discussions regarding economic stimuli, and the government’s role in fixing a “broken” economy should lead to important questions regarding the source of real economic change. We find ourselves in a situation where change is necessary. And our government seems convinced that they possess the best tools for “fixing” our economy. This is not necessarily [...]
Also posted in Constitutional Government, Economics 101, Free Markets, Political Speeches, Public Debt & Taxation Tagged Recession, Ronald Reagan, Stimulus 2 Comments
Inaugural Post – Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the [...]
