. >> welcome to the cato institute. i'm director of cato center for constitutional studies. and together with the federalist society, we're hosting a today's forum. i want to thank the federalist society. dean righter, julie nix, for their assistance organizing this forum. i want ii want to welcome thoseg us through c-span and live streaming audience as well. we're here to discuss an important new, important subject the permission society, title of new book from encounter book from goldwater institute tim sandefur. how the ruling class turns our freedoms into privileges and what we do about it. this book documents many ways especially since the progressive era, freedom at heart of our founding principles and documents has been distinct in favor of government. having to obtain permission from government officials before to act. property owners long experienced this reversal. today they often find before they can make any changes in their property they have to obtain a range of permits from the local zoning board all the way up to the environmental protection agency and u.s. a

this event hosted by the cato institute in washington dc. they are expected to talk about ways to replace the current welfare system with the universal basic income rate and whether that would work. this is live coverage on c-span2. >> . [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] >>. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] all right, i want to take an opportunity to welcome you all to the cato institute's fai auditorium, my name is michael tanner, a senior fellow here at cato and i generally work on issues that have to do with poverty and inequality and other areas of economic policy. today we are, we got a rare instance here at cato, a double performance if you will. we do a lot of book forums but we have to stick assistant distinguished authors dealing with books both released on the same topic at roughly the same time so it's serendipity that we get you both here today. we're talking about the universal basic income. which is the idea that rather than current multiplicity of social welfare programs that we currently have,

charles hughes is from the cato institute and has studied the effect of minimum wage increases on the economy. >> in the past when the minimum wage has been increased, firms in attempt to absorb the high labor have held off on expanding . some have had to close completely. and some have reduced the number of workers they're able to plo. >> it's an argument allie has heard before. >> working for $3.75 an hour is hard. >> she is a waitress in portland

and finally, matthew feeney, policy analyst at the cato institute. before coming to cato, he worked as assistant editor of reason.com, he has worked at the liberal democrats and the institute of economic affairs. matthew received his degrees from the university of reading in edge land. we will do our -- england. we will do our usual format, each speaker will have about ten minutes or so. to help set the stage, let's please welcome tim lynch. [applause] >> thank you, peter. good afternoon, everybody. right now i think it's safe to athat american policing is -- safe to say that american policing is being discussed and debated like never before. to take just one example, "the washington post" some months ago earned a pulitzer prize for tracking fatal police shootings across the country. it's really astonishing when you think about it. of all the things the government keeps track of. it never kept an accurate tally of fatal officer-involved shootings. so that's why the post earned its award for throwing resources and trying to come up with an accurate nu

this is from the cato institute. it's an hour. >>> good afternoon everybody. i want to welcome the audience and our c-span viewers who are tuning in. i am peter russo, the director of congressional affairs at the cato institute. i want to thank you for coming today. this is a capitol hill briefing entitled "fall fables and fallacies, the truth about policing in america. before we begin, if you'd like to the join the conversation we'd love to hear from you. tweet us at #catoevents. today we are resuming a multi-part capitol hill briefing series examining a number of policy areas of particular interest to lawmakers as well as the electorate at large entitled "fall fables and fallacies." we'll try to set the record straight on a number of issues and attempt to dispel the prevalent misunderstandings that are, in our view, adversely influencing public policy discussions. last month we looked at economic and income inequality. in the next several weeks, we'll address free trade, u.s. foreign policy, and more. today we'll explore the state of policing in america. the

that's according to the libertarian cato institute. a new report finds iowa is the 9th-freest state in the country. samantha-jo roth is in washington with more on the rankings. the united states of america --- the land of the free? well, according to a new study. it depends on where you live. "we have a relatively is. it's the ability of individuals to use their life, liberty and property as they see fit." william ruger with the cato institute spent over a year comparing each state's policies affecting economic and personal freedom. "these states are laboratories of democracy. they are experimenting with different policies and there's not a one size fits all approach." "to determine the rankings, the authors looked at state and local government intervention. they compared 230 policy factors -- like taxation, educational choice, and drug policy." the most free state in the country goes to new hampshire. oklahoma comes in at number two. indiana three.. south tennessee six.idaho seven..florid a eight. and iowa rounds out the top nine. "io

host: what did you do before you worked at cato question -- cato? i have a masters degree in economics. i worked with disputes. i have been at cato for 16 years. host: lori wallach, do you want to talk -- work for public citizen question -- public citizen. i work for public citizen, which was founded by ralph nader. i am a recovering attorney because i do not litigate any more peter i did go to law school. i spent the last 20-some years working on trade issues. i worked as a public interest lawyer doing appellate work and housing and family law for indigent women. host: both of our guests are kind enough to share their expertise with us, working on some of these panels in the past as we discuss trade policy on "washington journal." we have about 10 minutes left in the segment. karl is in hannover, maryland. a hillary clinton supporter. good morning. caller: good morning to everybody in c-span land. economics,gree in and also in human resources management. i have been- reading a lot about the constitution, and a lot of people do not seem to realize t

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onetime cato employee and advisor of ted cruz.in your book i thought one of the most interesting parts was the financial a financial rosace u.s. economy and what that has meant to the triangle of how you describe it wall street, main street and silicon valley. could you talk about that a little bit, please? >> the ultimate scandal of money is what is used as the alternative to the gold standa standard. in the currency today there will be a new accounting and this next month or so from the bureau of international settlements. but it is $5.3 trillion a day. this is 26 times all of the global gdp. it's 73 times all global output of goods and services. it is a scandal and it's all conducted by about ten banks that conduct 77% of the currency trading. and it's 98% is speculative. it just a complete failure the chinese are accused of manipulating currencies because they refuse to flow. they are fixed on the dollars plus enabling their miracles of economic growth and what's happening is we have created a closed loop economy between the o

pictures from the cato institute in washington. they will be hosting a discussion looking into a range of community policing issues such as the use of body cameras, police militarization. they will also talk about social media surveillance. this is live coverage here on c-span. it should start in just a moment. looked at economic and income inequality and in the next few weeks we will address free trade and more. today we will explore the state of policing in america. the recent events in oklahoma and oklahoma provide a stark reminder of these issues. carefully and soberly examined and addressed. i have brought together the principal member of the cato institute's project on criminal justice. it is led by the director tim lynch whose research interests include the war on terror, the drug war, militarization of police and gun control. he has published articles in a variety of periodicals and law journals. several amicus briefs in the supreme court in cases involving constitutional rights. he blogs extensively in the -- misconductust

host: what did you do before you worked at cato question -- cato?ave a masters degree in economics. i worked with disputes. i have been at cato for 16 years. host: lori wallach, do you want to talk -- work for public citizen question -- public citizen. i work for public citizen, which was founded by ralph nader. i am a recovering attorney because i do not litigate any more peter i did go to law school. i spent the last 20-some years working on trade issues. i worked as a public interest lawyer doing appellate work and housing and family law for indigent women. host: both of our guests are kind enough to share their expertise with us, working on some of these panels in the past as we discuss trade policy on "washington journal." we have about 10 minutes left in the segment. karl is in hannover, maryland. a hillary clinton supporter. good morning. caller: good morning to everybody in c-span land. economics,gree in and also in human resources management. i have been- reading a lot about the constitution, and a lot of people do not seem to realize that

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that's according to the libertarian cato institute. a new report finds iowa is the 9th-freest state in the country. samantha-jo roth is in washington with more on the rankings. the united states of america --- the land of the free? well, according to a new study. it depends on where you live. "we have a relatively traditional american is. it's the ability of individuals to use their life, liberty and property as they see fit." william ruger with the cato institute spent over a year comparing each state's policies affecting economic and personal freedom. "these states are laboratories of democracy. they are experimenting with different policies and there's not a one size fits all approach." "to determine the rankings, the authors looked at state and local government intervention. they compared 230 educational choice, and drug policy." the most free state in the country goes to new hampshire. oklahoma comes in at number two. indiana three.. south dakota four.alaska five. tennessee six.idaho seven..florid a eight. and iowa rounds out the

mike tanner with the cato institute. thank you all. >>> once here on c-span3, economists and health insurance executives on the future of health care in america. we'll have live coverage from the national institute for health care management foundation at noon eastern. you could also watch it live on c-span.org. >>> first ladies is the name of the book, presidential historians on the lives of 45 iconic american women. mark farkas, executive producer here at c-span, what is this? >> it's a book that grew out of our television series, first ladies and image. we've taken every single program where we had some of the greatest historians on the presidency and biographies of first ladies and put them into narrative form in each chapter. every first lady has a chapter in which you learn about their biography and time as first lady. some had great influence, some had less of an influence. >> was it hard to find records on first ladies? >> some are easy. abe gale adams, massachusetts historical society and they have thousands of

on tuesday at the cato institute in washington, d.c., the goldwater institute's timothy sander if will weigh in on the differences between rights and privileges. then on wednesday joe dolce will examine the history, science and economics of marijuana at tattered cover bookstore in denver. friday we'll be back in the nation's capital at center for american progress where journalist john judas will provide a history of populist movements in the united states. and next saturday and sunday we're live from the 28th annual southern festival of books in nashville with all-draw author programs. all-day author programs. featuring the likes of beth macy, dorothy padgett on carter presidency and adam hochschild's history of the spanish civil war. that's a look at some of the author programs booktv is covering week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> and now on booktv on c-span2, we bring you a few programs about the presidential candidates, hillary clinton and donald trump. starting in just a moment, david cay johnston tak

this is from the cato institute. it's an hour. >>> good afternoon everybody. want to welcome the audience and our c-span viewers who are tuning in. i am peter russo, the director of congressional affairs at the cato institute. i want to thank you for coming today. this is a capitol hill briefing entitled "fall fables and fallacies, the truth about policing in america. before we begin, if you'd like to the join the conversation we'd love to hear from you. tweet us at #catoevents. today we are resuming a multi-part capitol hill briefing series examining a number of policy areas of particular interest to lawmakers as well as the electorate at large entitled "fall fables and fallacies." we'll try to set the record straight on a number of issues and attempt to dispel the prevalent misunderstandings that are, in our view, adversely influencing public policy discussions. last month we looked at economic and income inequality. in the next several weeks, we'll address free trade, u.s. foreign policy, and more. today we'll explore the state of policing in america. the r

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police say they got this guy frederick cato behind bars tonight.ste arrested him in con with this assault you see here on the surveillance video wal walking into a chevron punching a 56-year-old clerk several times. knocking him to the ground. and then he kicks him after he's already unconscious. police say neither cato or the woman he was allegedly with that night would answer any questions about the brutal attack on a complete stranger. >>> creepy clowns aren't anything new around halloween but this season scary clowns are taking a whole new meaning following series of clown threats. fox's matt ackland shows us how some businesses are responding to this. >> reporter: here at mark off's haunted forest one they know they know for sure clowns scare people it seems like everyone is talking about it this year. and that is why this clown display take look at the big top here continues to grow. there's more to see here and more to be frightened of. at mark off's it's all fun and games. people actually pay money to be scared by creepy clowns. >> we're ju

cato.>> and first up the searchn just moments before they argued in a parking lot. >> authorities are releasing few details but the victim's sister is speaking out. she says her brother tried trying to defend a friend. >> just 21 years old, family mamembers say zach was fault. >> he stood up for what he believed but he was into the trouble maker. >> and he was standing up for a friend when he was killed. authorities say he got into anargument with the driver of a blue pick-up truck, and it may being abused. the driver of the blue trok truk followed him on his motorcycle and then the blue truck hit him and pushed him into the path of a white van passing by. when authorities got there he was already deceased and the blue truck was gone. >> he would do everyone, he was a really caring person. >> investigators are not sure of the make and model of that truck but they are asking anyone who knows the driver to call the hillsborough county sheriff's office. >> now to the race for the white house, just 11 days until the election and shock waves hit hillary clinton campaign. >> this time the f

. >> chris cato worked the word pivot in his audition but he sounded like craig patrick and goemer pile had a kid. >> my news director asked me if i could do money, power, politics every night. i said oh, my goodness yes. then i pivoted toward the exit and began crying. >> he was close. but he really, really needed a dark suit and a red tie. any shade of red to go with that >> i have another interview at 4:00. i have o-f-l after that. if you could help me with this. thank you, shawn, very much. >> now he's onto something with the pacing but we had to narrow it down to two finalists. >> test russell rhodes. >> that was it. i only have to make you laugh. >> russell mad my laugh but he needed a little help from the pace. i just a little bit. >> merissa, how is it going? any ideas for the show. >> oh. >> do you have any ideas for the show? i'm craig patrick. money, power & politics, go, go, go. >> he didn't get the hand gestures either. >> what is she talking about. did that make sense to anybody? >> then there was charley. >> i'm out of control i it will you. to be craig. i can host money,

. >> this afternoon a conversation on policing at the cato institute to cato institute to connect these the body cameras police militarization of social media surveillance flight noon eastern. >> for the next two hours a chance to engage and discuss issues that two leading third-party candidates. criteria as c-span quite thele. ball. those candidates whose names appear on the ballot could technically winning the necessary 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. the first hour conversation with gary johnson and our second hour jill stein who is the green party nominee but we begin withg governor john in and take uson back to may of this year as he accepted his party's nomination. >> i've always said it is your v hard work. it is every one of your work over the year that has gotten us to this point and i recognize that.at, and and that will work as hard as i can to represent everybody in this room. [applause] but, for those -- for those that want supportive, and want to reiterate a couple of things. i tell the truth. i am not a liar. i make plenty of mistakes. but what i say here at th

i am peter russo, the director of congressional affairs at the cato institute. i want to thank you for coming today. this is a capitol hill briefing entitled "fall fables and fallacies, the truth about policing in america. before we begin, if you'd like to the join the conversation we'd love to hear from you. tweet us at #catoevents. today we are resuming a multi-part capitol hill briefing series examining a number of policy areas of particular interest to lawmakers as well as the electorate at large entitled "fall fables and fallacies." we'll try to set the record straight on a number of issues and attempt to dispel the prevalent misunderstandings that are, in our view, adversely influencing public policy discussions. last month we looked at economic and income inequality. in we'll address free trade, u.s. foreign policy and more. today we'll explore the state of policing in america. the recent events in oklahoma and north carolina provide a reminder that these law enforcement issues that dominate headlines and broadcast leads need to be carefully and soberly e

daniel ikenson is with cato institute. our two guests. nafta is an issue that comes up whenever we have trade discussions. jared is in kyle, texas. undecided voter. good morning. hi.er: i was wondering -- i have a big problem with the tpp, and the biggest problem for me is that there are -- there is this par in there that has these international tribunals, so let's a corporation like exxon mobil, or someone like that, fracking ort doing something like that in a random country and a country decides to sue them, yet when they do that, they have this tribunal, and the person gets to pick who is on -- the person who gets to pick who is on the tribunal are the corporations. that is really a problem for me. what that tells me is they can water, ourollute our food supply, or something like that, and it is, like, we cannot do anything about it. that is my biggest problem. host: kyle, giving voice to some of the concerns lori wallach brought up earlier. daniel ikenson. guest: this is an area lori and i agree about. in 1959, the idea was developing

why families are upset other a >>> good evening, i'm chris cato. >>> i'm kelly ring. >>> first up tonight, uber and lyft say that it's not a fair playing field when it comes to ride services. they are crying foul over e-mails companies were invited to help the transportation commission. in a series of stings targeting drivers. and kellie cowan is taking a look companies in the thing? >> they played a major role in the crackdown on their competition. this was last spring on three occasions. if you recall the ptc where customers order an uber or lyft and when the driver showed up they were slapped with tickets totaling hundreds of dollars. the fake customers were cab and

cato called him one of the four governors proposing one of the biggest income tax cuts. all good stuff. >> you are seeing pushback. the idea that national review conservative. >> never gary johnson. he's not conservative. not even all that libertarian. johnson become governor. the budget grew at 7% a year. he had no control over. i understand people better at parsing these numbers say the actual growth and spending was much smaller. let's not get carried away. gary johnson is not libertarian jesus come to save us all. but the idea that somehow because spending grew during a relatively flush time in a democratically dominated state means he's not a real libertarian. it basically never happens. there was a feature we did in "reason" magazine where we looked for times when government had been cut anywhere in the world, anywhere in history. the research for that piece was tricky. we did not find much. john: yawn on ha -- johnson's ot said things like this. >> liberty means our bodies and mind belong to ourselves. that's clear. understandable. but here is now johnson began. >

>>> good evening, i'm chris cato. >>> i'm kelly ring. >>> first up tonight, uber and lyft say that it's not a fair playing field when it comes to ride services. they are crying foul over e-mails companies were invited to help the transportation commission. in a series of stings targeting drivers. and kellie cowan is taking a look companies in the thing? >> they played a major role in the crackdown on their competition. this was last spring on three occasions. if you recall the ptc where customers order an uber or lyft and when the driver showed up they were slapped with tickets totaling hundreds of dollars. the fake customers were cab and ptc, we have moan for a long time. it is a controlled by the cab companies, he is disappointed and not surprised by a series of e-mails that he says show collusion between the ptc and some of the companies it regulates. it is unfortunate that the staff is supposed to be in cahoots trying to set up , they have been on the road for years the ptc maintains they are operating ill laically. drivers from the companies were slapped with thousands in fines the

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. >> good evening on this friday, i'm chris cato in for mark wilson. >> and i'm kelly ring. we begin with a road rage incident that led to a deadly shooting in the brandon area, in bloominbloomingdale and south k, avenue, okay, road rage, what happened here. >> well, kelley, we know it happened evening, and this is right behind us. stale very active scene. what deputies are tells us is this appear to be a road rage incident, and two vehicling were shopstopped in traffic and the person who is now deceased got out and walked over to the suspect's vehicle. and heard. >> a car right over here, all of a sudden somebody shoots the driver. shoots him right here, and right here. the guy starts running -- the shooter runs the opposite way and hops in a get-away car, now everything happened so far, we are sitting there waiting and all of a sudden we hear pop, pop, pop. >> we are told that the shooter is beingoo told as soon as the shooting happened the shooter pulled off to the side of the road to wait for deputies to get here. so far the deceased next of kin are not here, and deputie

julian sanchez tech tech expert for cato institute said it's about time silicon valley got involved inics. i think it's horrible. >> it's unfortunate that it's necessary but it's odd they were able to hold back for as long as they did. once you reach a certain size even if you'd rather ignore washington washington will not nor you. john: now it's all very cozy and you can see people move from google to the obama administration and back. 183 people in the administration now work at google. i'm upset to this collaboration between silicon valley and washington. regulation strangles innovation. 80 years ago they were building the world's tallest building in 16 months. >> we know more about skyscraper construction than we did in the 30s. john: but we can't point to peter teal. >> the empire state building was built in 15 months in the world trade center took about 13 years. john: skyscrapers take longer today. >> once you have these politician ceos take over they often have to spend far more time thinking about what their business should be doing. john: since most of silicon valley's anti-t

julian sanchez tech tech expert for cato institute said it's about time silicon valley got involved initics. i think it's horrible. >> it's unfortunate that it's necessary but it's odd they were able to hold back for as long as they did. once you reach a certain size even if you'd rather ignore washington washington will not nor you. john: now it's all very cozy and you can see people move from google to the obama administration and back. 183 people in the administration now work at google. i'm upset to this collaboration between silicon valley and washington. regulation strangles innovation. 80 years ago they were building the world's tallest building in 16 months. >> we know more about skyscraper construction than we did in the 30s. john: but we can't point to peter teal. >> the empire state building was built in 15 months in the world trade center took about 13 years. john: skyscrapers take longer today. >> once you have these politician ceos take over they often have to spend far more time thinking about what their business should be doing. john: since most of silicon valley's anti

at the cato institute in washington d.c., the goldwater institute will weigh in on the differences betweenights and privileges. then on wednesday, joad dolce will examine the history, science and economics of marijuana at the tattered covered bookstore in denver. friday we will be back in the nations capital at the center for american progress where john judas will provide a history of

he's saying three out of a little bowl of refugees would kill you, but last week the conservative cato institute did the math and found the odds of an american being killed by a refugee in a terror attack is one in 3.64 billion. so that's not three poisoned skittles in a bowl. that's three poisoned skittles in one and a half olympic-sized and, yes, for the record, i would eat all of them. because once you get started you're like-- two more, two more. i'll just have two more. worst of all, this meme isn't even original. it's a ripoff of a similar idea posted by a feminist group, though in the original analogy, they used m&ms. of course, the trump family prefers skittles because there are no brown ones. ( applause ) ( laughter ) but, here's the real problem with this graphic: it compares refugees fleeing their war-torn countries to pieces of sugar. these are people who dream of living in a country where food is so plentiful, we waste our candy on metaphors. so let me explain to donald trump, jr. why he's wrong in language he can understand. reducing complex political problems to candy is

at the cato institute in washington d.c., the goldwater institute will weigh in on the differences between rights and privileges. then on wednesday, joad dolce will examine the history, science and economics of marijuana at the tattered covered bookstore in denver. friday we will be back in the nations capital at the center for american progress where john judas will provide a history of populist movements in the united states. next saturday and sunday, we are live from the 28th annual annual southern festival of books in nashville with all day author programs. it features the likes of beth macy on the jim crow south, the carter presidency and history of the spanish civil war. that's a look at some of the author programs book tv is covering this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on book tv on c-span2. >> good evening everyone. my husband and i on the bookstore. i want to know if all of you can hear me. we have a new sound system. doesn't work? >> great, wonderful. we are obviously thrilled, honored to be celebrating the publication o

julian sanchez tech tech expert for cato institute said it's about time silicon valley got involved initics. i think it's horrible. >> it's unfortunate that it's necessary but it's odd they were able to hold back for as long as they did. once you reach a certain size even if you'd rather ignore washington washington will not nor you. john: now it's all very cozy and you can see people move from google to the obama administration and back. 183 people in the administration now work at google. i'm upset to this collaboration between silicon valley and washington. regulation strangles innovation. 80 years ago they were building the world's tallest building in 16 months. >> we know more about skyscraper construction than we did in the 30s. john: but we can't point to peter teal. >> the empire state building was built in 15 months in the world trade center took about 13 years. john: skyscrapers take longer today. >> once you have these politician ceos take over they often have to spend far more time thinking about what their business should be doing. john: since most of silicon valley's anti

julian sanchez tech tech expert for cato institute said it's about time silicon valley got involved initics. i think it's horrible. >> it's unfortunate that it's necessary but it's odd they were able to hold back for as long as they did. once you reach a certain size even if you'd rather ignore washington washington will not nor you. john: now it's all very cozy and you can see people move from google to the obama administration and back. 183 people in the administration now work at google. i'm upset to this collaboration between silicon valley and washington. regulation strangles innovation. 80 years ago they were building the world's tallest building in 16 months. >> we know more about skyscraper construction than we did in the 30s. john: but we can't point to peter teal. >> the empire state building was built in 15 months in the world trade center took about 13 years. john: skyscrapers take longer today. >> once you have these politician ceos take over they often have to spend far more time thinking about what their business should be doing. john: since most of silicon valley's anti