cato and mr. cisneros if he is watching for working on this. it came as i think a reaction to constituent complaints about bills coming in or enforcement unknown tax law where there are some folks who had to pay huge fines and huge back tax on us and are continuing to do that, even as we speak. they still have to do this. although ignorance of the law is certainly no excuse, it is -- it was not known by most anyone that this was necessary. if they did know, had i known that they had to be fingerprinted and bonded, $1,000, all these thing, you can expect they wouldn't rent out their parking spot or they would not report it. we think that the amnesty part of this is very important. we appreciate that. i think mr. wiener's correct, you will get a lot more people who will come up and pay the tax, pay the penalties and back taxes if you do that. we do understand, of course, the concerns of smaller property owners in that they shouldn't be treated as big parking companies because they are not. these are folks who have maybe two units, are renting out

cato was here to discuss that. that is not part of the presentation? >> frank, would you like to say a few words on behalf of the treasurer? >> i'm just here to answer questions. we thank supervisor wiener for working collaboratively and come to a good spot. >> legislation that came forward from your office, to make sure you could tighten up regulations around parking tax? >> no, supervisor wiener proposed this legislation. >> thank you. >> supervisor wiener we just had a conversation. you said planning department had declined giving input on this aspect about the 1250 rule for parking. >> no. the planning department came out in support. planning staff. it's circulated. planning staff supports it and held a hearing last thursday and voted 6-1. >> thank you, supervisor. why don't we go to the budget analyst report. >> good afternoon, the proposed ordinance would amend the business and tax regulation to simplify procedures for residential parking operators of five units or less to pay the parking tax. the two things it will do would provide amnesty for t

kathleen hunker, the cato institute. i just wanted to follow up on that question when you talk about the technologies in general use. one of the developments of the technologies that they slowly but surely get into public use, so devices that once were exotic suddenly become ordinary. so what do you do when you have a case of infrared technology which starts to become widely available which is sort of a intrusion on what you physically are trying to prevent the world to see, how do you deal with it when it becomes general public use? >> well, you said "suddenly," but i don't think anything comes suddenly into general public use. there will be times as technology advances, and, frankly, the result but not the rationale of the kilo decision may go away at some point in the future where everybody's cell phone has an infrared device in it. society will understand that if you want to obscure the hours of your sauna usage in your home, you need to put the sauna on the interior of the home rather than against an exterior law. a

also from the cato institute, this is just over one hour. >> i want to welcome those of you who just joined us for the simon lecture. i am walt -- roger pilon. i want to welcome those in the c-span audience, who might have just joined us for this sign and lecture. each year, we conclude our constitution day conference with the annual lecture named in honor of the late ken simon, a pittsburgh engineering, an entrepreneur and industrialist who was a great friend of liberty and the cato institute, devoted to furthering the thought of the american founders. this series has brought a distinguished group of justices, legal scholars to the podium to discuss in doing constitutional issues. our first simon lecture was on constitutionalism, and it was given by douglas h. ginsburg, then the chief judge of the d.c. circuit. since then, lectures have covered subjects ranging from property rights to religious liberty, the ninth amendment, progressivism and more, including privacy, the subject of the lecture last year by the chief justice -- judge of the ninth circuit. that is the lead essay indica

it's always a great pleasure to be here at cato. i like so many people before me congratulate cato for putting on such a wonderful event and running this panel and this fantastic facility, which is my first opportunity to visit. if you're watching the video coming should definitely come see the real thing in person. i am going to talk about the business docket. while the criminal docket can touch those of us who are criminal defendants, which is only half of us probably. for those of us who care about our relationship with the government when it comes to individual privacy, you know, when can the government have a dog, it is relatively less common that the business cases touch as so individually and so personally. and so i'm going to cover 10 cases. six cases for her possessions and melted in the relatively summary form because the main event is not only what canon talked about, but the big interesting cases david is going to talk about. so a friend this docket so you have a sense of what is going on and the assumption that a lot of

i'm always happy to be here at the cato institute. thank you very much. >> i would like to thank david and michael preparing today. the book today has been fundamental freedom by david lampo. it is available from your favorite bookseller. i'm sure david will be happy to sign any copy that you might want to talk to you about the book. you will have an opportunity to do so and to meet the author. we're going to go upstairs and have lunch as part of our cato forum. lunches upstairs in the george eger conference center. have to go up the stairs. i could say also that restrooms on the second floor. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> every weekend, booktv offers 40 hours of programming focus on nonfiction authors and books. watch it here on c-span2. >> the factors in our world when it comes to thinking about writing about politics than national security of the state, about what used to be called foreign policy but is now it is very small. >> we need people willing to try to step back, trying to make the raid out of

the cato institute when it started, koch brothers.some of you may know now the koch brothers, cato kind of went its own independent way, and the koch brothers are now suing the cato institute to get it back to being a totally-controlled koch brothers operation. people -- americans for prosperity, is the most active political organizations today, all funded for the koch brothers. freedomworks, dick armey's organization, koch brothers. john kasich in ohio, koch brothers. candidate -- bought lock, stock and barrel by the koch brothers. same as scott walker in wisconsin. everywhere. in many california a couple of years ago there was a measure, prop 23, on the ballot to repeal the new clean car standards put in by arnold schwarzenegger. that measure to repeal those standards, which lost -- prop

of the koch brothers they have declared that the tea party is libertarian at its core when you say cato you know referring to the pink panther sidekick ok so here's a headline from this libertarian at it's core group. tea bagging for the military industrial complex so tea party nation leader judson phillips told the economist magazine max he said if we decide to build a couple of new carriers aircraft carriers thousands of workers would be hired for the shipyards thousands of employees would be hired for the steel mills it means they would receive paychecks and go out and spend that money so we should use this sort of government spending we should expand the military and this is a good kind of big government a good kind of government spend not that bad stuff over there for social welfare services and food stamps and health care or exploration of mars or landing on the moon landing of course generated the technological interest in the interest in science which resulted in giving us things like microsoft apple oracle you know the s. and p. five hundred move for the past twenty years but t

in fact, nfl films visited anacostia just today to do a documentary on cato. that will air later this year. thus far indians are 1-1 and take on woodrow wilson tonight. >> and we wish them well. thanks. >> not wilson alum. we wish wilson well. >> that's a different story. >>> still ahead tonight the gamble on casinos in maryland, we'll take a closer look at some of those ads arguing for and against. >> up next our weekly look into the local restaurants and eateries that are not quite living up to your expectations. russ ptacek on the prowl. >>> 9 wants you to know about the health hazards that shut down a local university cafeteria kitchen. investigative reporter russ ptacek has this week's food alert and it also includes some mice in montgomery county. >> reporter: restaurants all over the world know you have to use hot water to clean and keep food safe. it is key to preventing contamination that could make you sick, but almost every week we find a kitchen continuing to operate even though there's no hot water. that is, until they get caught. just across the

it is just speculation. >> i am an intern at the cato institute. there are two general arguments regarding gay-rights/marriage. the federal definition should be amended to include more people and rather than we negotiating the criteria we should abolish the federal monopoly to live and let live to let people do what they want. so why do we focus on the former for a work instead of the latter? >> if that were repealed that the government they would not be involved in that issue. the opponents want to get the feds involved even more. i think it has little chance but it did say really important position of people like the american family association and family research council and the usual suspects. not disrespectfully. and y think it is gratuitous for candidates especially was made to say he will support and work for it to 51 to disengage then repeal and that is a good start. >> then you have a situation with the interesting characteristic those recognized under state law would qualify for things like marital deductions in it would be an incentive f

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david savage joined tom goldstein at the cato institute. this is one hour in 15 minutes. >> our conference concludes with a look ahead. this is a bit sparse. were and not for a obamacare, you could say that this coming term would be the term of the decade. in the first two sittings, the court will hear things on racial preferences and higher education and the fourth amendment as well as a follow up to the blockbuster from a few years ago, walmart. kato has helped in all of these. if granted they would become high-profile as well. then there are the multiple cases relating to gay marriage in the defensive marriage act. if you thought you're getting a breather, i am sorry to disappoint you. the author of this year's looking ahead s.a. is a partner -- is a partner. his argued 11 cases before the supreme court, or than any other lawyer in its history. born and raised in kansas, he received his ab from harvard. he clerked for antonin scalia. most importantly, he is my girlfriend boss. tom goldstein is a partner at gold steen and russell. after l

addiction they treat them like they're what's interesting you know that because i think that was a cato institute study but i actually found another report that was just it just came out that said that actually the country has the highest amount of. they call injected drug related aids cases and it's been high for a very long time and it's stayed up since since the decriminalize drugs and not only that but they have some of the worst overdoses they've ever seen they they said that the overdoses actually increased by thirty percent so that's one point i think that they're like i think i think that needle exchange program in conjunction with maybe the decriminalization is something else to explore but ok so yes i understand you're saying the hard drugs you know where they're going to end. further i don't know i'm starting to up but i think i still think that portugal makes is a very very interesting case and exactly what you said it's case in point to make the argument of how we can work how something like this can work a country that's exposed that's had problems with with a lot of drug

the cato institute when it started, koch brothers. some of you may know now that koch brothers, cato when its own independently and the koch brothers are now suing the cato institute to get it back to the a totally controlled koch brothers operation. people -- americans for prosperity, the most active political organization today all funded by the koch brothers. freedom work in the dick armey's koch brothers. john kasich and ohio, koch brothers candidate, bob lock, stock and barrel by the koch brothers. same with scott walker in wisconsin. everywhere in california, a couple years ago there's a measure prop 23 on the ballot to repeal the clean, new clean car standards put in by arnold schwarzenegger. that measured to repeal standards which loss, prop 23, totally funded by the koch brothers. legislation in west virginia to overturn the new mining safety rules that were put in place after the last mind disaster. the effort to overturn mining safety regulations funded by the koch brothers. i have in the book a page with 53 different organ

maybe chris and his colleagues at catos are an exception. idea of a sequester is so awf awful, it would cut so deeply into spending, it should never happen. it's a doomsday device, which is trying to get congress to do its real job, which is to focus on taxes and sbentitlements get a grand bargain. nobody wants it to happen, but we're playing a big game of chicken because nobody wants to do the other things that are necessary to get those deficits down. but look, if we cut $55 billion out of defense, which is what the sequester would do, in one year alone, in 2013, that's going to cause havoc at the pentagon. it's going to cause a lot of immediate job loss and pain. >> chris, what do you think? i know you see an economic benefit to this, but it's going to be ugly in the process, isn't it? >> we have to remember that military spending remains near historic highs in real inflation-adjusted dollars. we're still spending far more than we did to defeat the soviet union in the cold war and in the '90s when the united states was remarkably secure a

the cato institute held a criminal law hearing. including the sec, and arizona's immigration law case, all agree that criminal law is changing with justices having to deal with increasing new uses for technology for the supreme court begins its new terms and just a few days, monday, october 1. this is just over one hour. >> because of the severe storm warnings we have been receiving, is expected to hit the capital city a little bit later today. in a flash flood warning -- the ones we have been hearing on the radio, i want to remind you that your seat cushions -- [laughter] -- can also be used as flotation devices. please note the exits. [laughter] keeping in mind that the closest exit might be behind you. [laughter] most important from the perspective of our panelists, please make sure that all of your electronic devices have been turned off and are stowed underneath the seat in front of you. we know that you can visit other think tanks, so we appreciate your attendance today. we hope this day is a safe and enjoyable one. >> thank

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it's a pleasure to be at cato. i congratulate cato for putting on a great event and running this panel and this fantastic facility, which is my first opportunity to visit and if you are watching the video you should come see the real thing in person. i'm going to talk about the business docket and while the criminal docket to tou those of us that our criminal defendants, only half of us probably. care about our relationship with the government when it comes to individual privacy. when can the government have a dog sniffing at the airport or homes or that sort of thing. it's relatively less common that the business cases to ask us individually and personally saw in going to cover ten cases, sixth on the merits docket and i'm going to try to do the summary for because it's not only but kannon talked about but the interesting case is that david is can't talk about, going to frame the business docket for user you have a sense of what is going on in the assumption epic a lot of these cases will not have immediate and di

at 10:30, the cato institute boasts a form on the supreme court possible terms.r talks about her work and relations between her country and the u.s. at 5:30 p.m. eastern, the atlantic council hears from a marine commandant. to date on c-span 2, the oregon governor talks about health care costs while improving care. he says the center for american progress. also on c-span 2 at 1:00 p.m. eastern, a cato institute forum on the supreme court 2011-2012 term including a look at property rights and the impact of surveillance and immigration. live coverage starts at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. coming up in 45 minutes on "washington journal," representative don edwards of maryland heads th

always a great pleasure to be here at cato.how so many of the people before me congratulate you for the wonderful event, the pam, and the fantastic facility, my first opportunity, and if you watch any video, definitely see the real thing in person. i am going to talk about the business docket, and while it's the case that the criminal docket can touch those of us who are criminal defendants, which is only half of us probably -- [laughter] for those of us who simply care about our relationship with the government when it comes to our individual privacy, you know, when can the government have a dog sniffing us in the airport or homes, that sort of thing. it is relatively less common that the business cases touch us so individually and so personally, and so i'll cover ten cases on the docket and four serf petitions in summary form because the main event is the big sexy interesting cases that david talks about. i'll frame the business together for you and so that you have a sense of what's going on in the assumption that a lot of t

or cato is making a progress story because getting back over it is getting better and better and. the competitive travels are higher so i think playing it's a good thing about playing on a high level it's obviously not a good thing i would advice for everybody to play to get ready for the turn so nothing lurking lending for a good gauge or has worked out special rules no more than three n.h.l. players can be signed for a team only one corner is allowed on two russian clubs last year. on top of that at least one of the four we. must be met blair has to be a stoic winner. and a cio words winner has played at least one hundred fifty games in the n.h.l. over the last three years. has represented his country at the previous two world and world junior championships or winter olympics and finally those who had played in the before are welcomed i think in the chillers you there are the russians or international where six north american boys will increase the level of the game here i certainly looking forward to that. as far as i prefer obviously i prefer russian when a child stars. a comm

eighty they also went on to fund similar think tanks like the david koch foundation later renamed the cato institute also devoted to libertarian government and maybe societies where the poor and working class are left to fend for themselves in one nine hundred seventy one the u.s. chamber of commerce and corporate america got into the game that year lewis powell . it was paul supreme court justice wrote actually this is a few months before he was appointed supreme court he wrote a memo to him his best friend next door neighbor the president of the u.s. chamber of commerce suggesting the businesses should start investing more money in political lobbying in college curricula and in media to push a pro corporate agenda powell likely had no idea how influential his memo would become and the damage to america it would cause but his her gene corporate america went to work funding think tanks buying up the media and hiring sympathetic college professors to teach the values of the corporate run so-called free market by the time i ran died in one thousand nine hundred two ironically on social secur

now let's look at a cato institute study of portugal at the they decided to decriminalize all drugs in two thousand and one including cocaine and heroin now if one expected an absolute disaster but over a decade later the nightmare scenario of widespread drug use and violence never occurred in fact portugal now has among the lowest drug use in the entire european union disease and deaths linked to drug uses have actually decreased dramatically and experts suggest that the positive trends are a direct result of a government who is no longer focused on punishing drug users but instead treating drug addiction as an illness and offering treatment programs to its citizens so if portugal is a case in point of decriminalization being a viable solution why does the us refuse to explore this option. could it have anything to do with instances like a cia rendition plane crashing in mexico with four tons of cocaine found inside or the fact that ninety percent of the world's heroin comes from a country that the us has been occupying for over a decade plus or the fact that the richest once turned b

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i just didn't update piece in the new york daily news with the cato institute.ome of you might know interesting collaboration between code pink and the cato institute in which we wrote about the dangers of these drones and said that there should be legislation that says no government agency can use our tax dollars to give police departments or other lot worse than agency money to buy drugs. and grandpa, senator rampal introduced a piece of legislation same drones could not use to spy on americans without a warrant. so there is the possibility of broad collaboration to try to stop the 24 sevenths surveillance of americans before it starts. we are asking people as i travel around to do a very simple thing. and that is, call your police department. so i'm going to pass around some questions for you to ask your police department. at the very simple. do you have any drones? to have any any plans to buy any drones and have you applied for a grant from the government agencies to get any drones? and then to add your own opinions about them getting drones. we are compili

but the director of the cato institute needs more market discipline.r being with us. one risk of higher capital ratio and all the extra regulation increasing their risk rather than reducing it. how could that be true? >> to be concerned about first when you talk about capital regulation you have these risk-based capital standards, but the higher you make the overall, to halt very low waitings, and increasing capital standards, and the same assets as well. and deregulate the same way and everyone will receive an to the same shock the same way. [talking over each other] dennis: dodd-frank is not addressing what got us into the meltdown. >> it is not. look at the bubbles created by monetary policy. fannie and freddie a barely mentioned in the bill. we have not heard about the heavy tax code for the debt. it is not just banks and other corporations highly leveraged bid how surprising they are not more leverage when you tax equity and subsidized at in the tax code. we move to a system where it is equity that neutral and move to a system where the markets sh

and that -- plus cato filing a brief, hopefully it will get up there. and our brief based on a work written by a professor at georgetown and now senior fellow at cato. who has a brilliant article. it really diving into the technical details about what the treaty power is all about. hopefully this will go up and the court will -- and roberts' minimalist fashion, we will just say, we do not need to overall, it only applies to the arbitrary treaties a dent in the '20s. [laughter] there was a hand way back there. >> a little like to ask those with expertise a dented the craftsmanship of judicial opinion and expertise on the text of the voting rights act, if there's any such person here, whether the voting rights act is written in such a way that the supreme court could conceivably strike down the coverage formula and leave a the rest of section 5 standing, such that until congress acted, the prevailing law would be that pre clarence is nationwide -- that pre clearance is nationwide. >> i am no expert on the craftsmanship of judicial -- section 5. i will tak

the cato institute, when it started. some of you may now know that cato kind of went its own independent way. they are now suing the cato institute to get it back to be a totally controlled operation. people, americans for prosperity , one of the most active political organizations today, all funded. freedom works. john kaysix in ohio. scott walker in wisconsin. everywhere, california a couple of years ago, measure, prop. 23 on the ballot to repeal the cleanly -- new clean car standards but in my arms schwarzenegger. the measure to repeal the standards which lost. totally funded by the brothers. legislation in west virginia to overturn the new mining state laws that were put in place after that last mine disaster. the effort to overturn mining safety regulations, funded by the brothers. i have, in the book, page with 53 different organizations. a lot of them, by the way, research centers on college campuses run the country, all for the purpose of disputing the existence of global warming and fighting to do away with any

remember cato cailin? dana: that's next. >> joe: a lot of women don't want to drink if you're pregnant. >> andrea: if you a woman who thinks she could possibly be pregnant why would you be in a bar anyway? we'll assume that woman is responsible enough to say oh, you know what? before my harvey wallbanger i should go in the bathroom and get tests. >> joe: you talk about the market. let the market decide. >> dana: scary thing there is a market for it. >> eric: are you pregnant? she goes no, i'm just fat. go prove it. >> andrea: never ask a woman if she is pregnant. >> greg: this comes down to zero tolerance about pregnant women drinking which is bogus. if anybody deserves the drink it's a pregnant woman. if you talk to any doctor, and i'm making this fact up, but if you talk to any doctor they will tell you one, two drinks is fine. zero tolerance, they talk about fetal alcohol syndrome as a bad thing. for most women, you can have a cocktail or glass of wine or two and god knows they need it. >> andrea: greg,

and north into union city, down mission boulevard to da cato road where the police ended in union city. >> that's where the driver in the truck crashed and bailed out on foot. an officer tackled him. both of them suffered minor injuries. the officer had an injury to his knee. that suspect arrested for attempted kidnapping, resisting arrest and evading police. the truck was taken in evidence. police telling us they plan to search it. still unclear exactly what the motive for all this was. reporting live in union city, christy smith, "today in the bay." >>> there are troubling details for two men accused of killing and burning a union city mother. during testimony, a witness says monica was murdered for refusing to i.d. a person who robbed a drug dealer. prosecutors say her boyfriend, salvador val lasko and the suspected drug dealer became angry. they allegedly bound the 21-year-old woman before killing her. her body later found set on fire in oakland's rock ridge neighborhood. >>> on the peninsula, the man accused of robbing steve jobs palo alto home is expected to enter a plea today to

great to see the cato institute. is an honor to be here at the podium presenting some thoughts on october of 2011. constitutional moment. as roger alluded to i have the distinct pleasure of arguing the challenge to the affordable care act on behalf of 26 states, the fact that 26 states combined together in a challenge against the federal statute is a remarkable development and the case itself was remarkable in almost every respect. i want to talk principally about that case and the court's decision. certainly i am under no illusions that there is anything left to be said about the health care case. it has been as analyze as any case in recent memory and that is consistent with this entire case. this case i have been incredibly privilege to be involved in. 6 the supreme court cases that i argue and others that i briefed and there is no case i can remember that captured public attention quite the way the health care case and health-care challenge did. i also think it is fair to say that the health care case had a rathe