Monday, November 19, 2018

Links 2018/11/19

Straight-ticket voting in Texas ends in 2020. Good. Link.

An antifa protester attacked a fellow protester, who was misidentified as a Nazi for... having an American flag. Link.

"We find robust evidence that exposure to teacher collective bargaining laws worsens the future labor market outcomes of men: in the first 10 years after passage of a duty-to-bargain law, male earnings decline by $2,134 (or 3.93%) per year and hours worked decrease by 0.42 hours per week." Link.

When civil asset forfeitures can be used to raise money... "black and Hispanic arrests for drugs, DUI, and prostitution arrests are all increasing with deficits in states where seizure revenues are legally retained while white arrests are broadly insensitive to deficits." Link.

Americans have more faith in the Supreme Court than in the more partisan branches of government. But is that (both) changing? Link.

One of the themes of the Trump administration is deregulation, but maybe the only difference is the growth of regulations has slowed? Also, the number of regulations grew more under Bush than under Obama. Link.

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