Episode 007 looks at what politicians do to increase drunk driving in their jurisdiction, and how the free market may decrease it. Listen to Episode 007 (0h43m, mp3, 96kbps)Show Notes Transcription NotesMark Crovelli, “How to Convince Men to Drive Drunk“LawQA.com, “Can I Get a DUI in a Parked Car?“Mark Thornton, The Economics of ProhibitionWikipedia, “Blood…
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80 Years Later, the Horrors of Prohibition Continue
Exactly 80 years ago today, America’s disastrous experiment with prohibition on alcohol came to its long-anticipated conclusion. At the time there was widespread rejoicing — and rightly so. The termination of prohibition not only brought an end to the unnecessary persecution and prosecution of tens of thousands of innocent individuals who had harmed no one…
Top Winnie, Around Town, The Ring
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Re: Prohibitions
Parrish, what the tunnels also demonstrate is the initiative, creativity, entrepreneurship, and determination of human beings. The market, either above or under ground, continues to amaze me. And to think that so many think that free people couldn’t figure out how to make and manage roads fairly and efficiently. Straight up ignorance, methinks. Skyler.
The Costs of Prohibition
The state destroys wealth and wastes human initiative by forcing individuals to spend time and money endeavoring to circumvent unnatural impediments to the market instituted by the state. Recently state enforcers seized a tunnel equipped with electricity, ventilation and a rail system that connected San Diego, California, to Tijuana, Mexico. This tunnel was allegedly built…
WoD, WoT, Lies
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More Winnies, More History, Defining Religion
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. Today we…
The Winnies, The Euro, Town and Country
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. The last…
Is Pot too Potent to Legalize?
Editor’s Pick. Written by Mark Thornton. During alcohol prohibition (1920-1933), alcohol consumption went from a beer, wine, and whiskey market to one of rotgut whiskey with little wine or beer available. The rotgut whiskey could be more than twice as potent of the normal whiskey that was produced both before and after prohibition. The product…
Harms No Other
Writes Free Your Kids: I do not drink raw milk. Perhaps it is delicious. I don’t like cow’s milk in general, though. But that raw milk is illegal in many states is ridiculous. I don’t smoke cannabis. I don’t especially care for it. But if you enjoy it, you should be allowed to consume it…