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When the Select Committee on Assassinations issued its final report on the murder of Dr. #MartinLutherKingJr, it noted that the Department of #Justice “failed to supervise adequately the Domestic Intelligence Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." The report further stated that: "the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in the #DomesticIntelligence Division’s COINTELPRO campaign against Dr. King, grossly abused and exceeded its #legal authority and failed to consider the possibility that actions threatening bodily harm to Dr.

Upcoming Conference Come to our Mid-Atlantic conference in DC and meet like-minded people. David Boaz is the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, a key figure in the libertarian movement, and an an accomplished author and editor. Another speaker, Trevor Burrus, is a research fellow in the Cato Institute's Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. We can't wait to see you there!

Verified Is wealth inequality a crisis? As part of their presidential campaigns, Senators #ElizabethWarren (D-MA) and #BernieSanders (D-VT) are both proposing a new annual #WealthTax to address the issue of wealth inequality. However, wealth inequality gives very little indication of #poverty versus #prosperity. For example, Ethiopia, Burma, and Pakistan have significantly smaller #WealthGaps than the U.S., but most would choose a home here. Much of wealth #inequality in the U.S.

The #JonesAct is a failure.⠀ ⠀ Conceived in discredited #protectionist fallacies, the Jones Act deprives U.S. shipbuilding of the most essential ingredients of continuous improvement and #innovation: foreign competition. ⠀ ⠀ The law effectively has condemned U.S. #shipbuilding to second-rate status, which becomes more apparent with each passing decade.

Time and time again, what you’ll find is that the freer people are, the less central power there is in #government, the richer they are. And, it's amazing when you look at the progress we have. There's a website called HumanProgress.org, and, if you look at #poverty over the last 200 years, it's amazing what we're doing to poverty. In 1820, 90% of the world lived on less than $2 a day. When I was born in the early 1960s, it was down to a third of the world living in extreme poverty.

If the Christmas-tree-before-Halloween don't give you post-summer whiplash, believe it or not it's time to start thinking about the spring intern season -- Cato's deadline is Nov 1, and others are coming SOON! Here's a roundup of other programs:

Thank you Ilya Shapiro for an interesting and informative overview of recent SCOTUS decisions and what we can expect for the current term!

Introducing the first speaker - Trevor Burrus - Cato Institute, with a talk - The Privitimism Of Politics. See the registration link at Bio. WantWe want to introduce our first speeker- Trevor Burrus - Cato Institute. He will talk about - The Privitimism of Politics. Check the Registration link in Bio. # TbilisiRC19

According the @catoinstitute, Australia ranks number 4 on the Human Freedom Index. But when it comes to tax we only score a 5/10. #moreworktodo #taxationistheft #government #people #taxpayers #liberty #society #support #libertarian #libertarianism #instagovernment #liberal #classicliberal #freedom #capitalism #australiantaxpayers #freemarket #lowertax #cato #humanfreedom #freedom #free #tax #taxes #economy #australia #advocacy #politics

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