CNN Commentary: Legalize drugs to stop violence

[JoshLowry]

Jeffrey A. Miron is senior lecturer in economics at Harvard University.

He says legalizing drugs would greatly reduce violence.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/...ugs/index.html

GREAT article.

[iddo]

His TV appearance on CNN to promote his article was even more impressive:
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=3168

[dannno]

Oh, come on, you can totally tell this guy is a dirty drug addict..



He just wants to get his fix.

[JoshLowry]

He also has a blog...

"Musings of a libertarian economist"

http://jeffreyalanmiron.typepad.com/

[dannno]

He reminds me of Gary Johnson.

[Zuras]

Let's just repeal all laws, everything goes! Then we have no "crime" at all.

[JoshLowry]

Let's just repeal all laws, everything goes! Then we have no "crime" at all.

Do you have a valid point that you would like to make?

Being sarcastic because you don't agree with something doesn't get you anywhere.

How can you refute anything in that article?

[BillyDkid]

Jeffrey A. Miron is senior lecturer in economics at Harvard University.

He says legalizing drugs would greatly reduce violence.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/...ugs/index.html

GREAT article.

Of course the people in power know this, but the drug war is growth industry with many vested interests. The trick is getting the people to recognize this. The drug war is a cash cow for great numbers of people and it will never change until the American people see it for what it is. Our mistake is thinking that the owners of this country have any interest in its welfare. There are a thousand things we shouldn't be doing and that the country would be better off doing, but for all of this stuff there is a vested interest or many who will stop at nothing to protect their interests.

[Maverick]

Increase Carbon Taxes While Lowering Marginal Tax Rates: Reasonable people disagree about how much the U.S. should reduce its use of fossil fuels, but crowded highways, air pollution, and global warming all suggest that some reduction is desirable.

The effective way to accomplish this is higher gasoline or other carbon taxes, not the messy, complicated green spending in the Obama plan that will morph into pork in many cases. If higher carbon taxes are combined with lower marginal tax rates, the private sector faces better incentives on both counts. This approach avoids the higher deficits implied by Obama's green initiatives.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/...lus/index.html

Uhh...what? How is it that raising taxes can be part of a "stimulus package that libertarians can endorse?"

[JoshLowry]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/...lus/index.html

Uhh...what? How is it that raising taxes can be part of a "stimulus package that libertarians can endorse?"

Email him and ask: miron@fas.harvard.edu