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Abolish the NSA and CIA

Ending these unaccountable agencies would safeguard civil liberties and improve intelligence gathering.

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Abolish the Fed

A central bank is not essential to a functioning economy.

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Abolish the Department of Education

The federal government furnishes a relatively tiny amount of K-12 funding—but the feds need relatively little money to exert power.

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Abolish the Federal Alcohol Tax and Regulation System

The states already overregulate alcohol. There's no need for a federal layer of red tape.

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Abolish Obamacare

The Affordable Care Act has become a broken welfare program for people who don't need it.

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Abolish the Small Business Administration

Like all government perks, SBA lending creates unseen victims.

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Abolish FOIA

FOIA has no teeth and bureaucrats abuse its exemptions. Just redact and release every federal workers' emails instead.

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Abolish Antitrust Law

Having a large market share may just mean that a company is really good at what it does.

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Abolish Amtrak

Why should the federal government run a transportation corporation?

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Abolish the EPA

Climate change is a serious environmental concern, but it is not clear how the EPA helps.

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Abolish the DEA

The DEA's attempts to enforce the nation's drug laws have been a resounding failure by pretty much any measure.

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Abolish the Federal Minimum Wage

There is a "virtual consensus" among economists that the minimum wage puts people out of work.

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Abolish Borders

If government-drawn lines within your country don't possess some sort of moral magic that voids your rights, why would government-drawn lines between countries?

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Abolish Social Security

Stop robbing poor, hard-working Peter to pay well-off, retired Paul.

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Abolish the National Park Service

Revising how America's most beautiful public lands are protected would create more ways for Americans to interact with some of the best parts of the country.

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Abolish Federal Student Loans

Easily accessible student loans give colleges an incentive to raise tuition.

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Abolish the FCC

Let the invisible hand regulate the invisible resource.

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Abolish ICE

The federal immigration agency disrupts communities and families, for no good.

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Abolish the Department of Transportation

When money comes down from the DOT, it has copious strings attached to it—strings that make infrastructure more expensive and less useful.

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Abolish the Army

"Standing armies are dangerous to liberty," Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 29.

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Abolish the IRS—and the Income Tax Too

Americans spent an estimated $133 billion and 6.5 billion hours filing their tax returns in 2024.

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Abolish FEMA

FEMA has given Americans every reason to believe it is highly politicized, a poor steward of federal resources, bad at establishing priorities, and often unable to communicate clearly to people in distress.

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Brickbat: Don't Make Me Come Back There

A grand jury in Hamilton County, Tennessee has indicted school bus driver Brandy Renee Smith for reckless driving, four counts… The post Brickbat: Don't Make Me Come Back There appeared first on Reason.com.

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Theodore Olson (1940-2024)

A fond memory of the student leadership reception at Ted's palatial estate.

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Trump's First Term Wasn't Fiscally Responsible. Will His Second Be Different?

Even before the pandemic spending increase, the budget deficit was approaching $1 trillion. The GOP has the chance to embrace fiscal sanity this time if they can find the political will.

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