Reason Alert: Biden's Spending Framework, Climate Change, Carry Permits and Free Speech

Reason Alert Friday, October 29, 2021 Friday Funnies Say when on the spending.  By Lisa Benson Friday Movie Review: Last Night in Soho  The movie is much enlivened by a strong cast.  By Kurt Loder Biden's New Spending Framework Promises To Do Everything But Still Cost Nothing. That Doesn't Make Sense. The outline is littered with budget gimmicks.  By Eric Boehm 40 Years of Trillion-Dollar Debt  Forty years from now, it'll be much, much, much higher.  By Eric Boehm Evidence-Based Policies To Slow Climate Change  Top-down policy approaches to control emissions may not be as effective as bottom-up approaches that harness the natural tendency of entrepreneurs and innovators.    By Julian Morris  A Primer on Carbon Taxes  Examining claims that replacing existing regulations, subsidies, and tax expenditures with a carbon tax would more cost-effectively achieve emissions-reductions goals.    By Julian Morris  ​​​​ Proposed Electric Vehicles Tax Credit Prioritizes Labor Unions Over Carbon Reduction Goals  By trying to push buyers to union-assembled cars, Congress risks slowing the shift to electric vehicles and undercutting the carbon reduction goals it is trying to achieve.    By Robert Poole  COVID Proves Andrew Yang's UBI Won't Work  Can the government really cut everyone a check without bankrupting the country and killing labor force participation?  By Nick Gillespie  The PATRIOT Act's Poisoned Tree  Two decades after 9/11, the government's appetite for spying has only grown.  By Brian Doherty Your Cell Phone Is Spying on You  An FBI document reminds us: Your cell phone provider knows where you've been—and will tell the feds.  By Brian Doherty A Study of What Police Know About Court Decisions Exposes 'Qualified Immunity's Boldest Lie'  The Supreme Court's notion of "fair notice," which it says requires blocking many civil rights lawsuits, is based on a demonstrably false assumption.   By Jacob Sullum Medical Marijuana Users Have Second Amendment Rights, Deserve the Right To Self-Defense  Due to federal drug laws, medical marijuana patients are losing their Second Amendment gun rights.    By Spence Purnell  Why Martin Luther King Couldn't Get a Carry Permit  Several groups urging the Supreme Court to overturn New York’s virtual ban on bearing arms emphasize the policy’s racist roots and racially disproportionate impact.  By Jacob Sullum  Garry Kasparov: From Communism's Last Chess Champion to Freedom Fighter  Thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, its greatest—and last—chess champion reflects on the awful system that produced him.  By Nick Gillespie  The U.S. May Stand Alone as a Haven for Free Speech  The First Amendment shields Americans from censorship, but authoritarian legislation in Britain and Canada warns of what could be in store if that protection fails.   By J.D. Tuccille    If this email has been forwarded to you and you would like to subscribe to Reason's email newsletters, please go here. Donate Reason Foundation 5737 Mesmer Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90230, USA Privacy Policy   Manage Your Preferences Unsubscribe - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -