Michael Chapman

Senior Editor, Cato Institute. "The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time." (Views my own.)

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

The Jones Act blocks foreign ships from moving cargo between US ports. Cato’s new interactive Jones Act Waiver Tracker follows every voyage the 2026 waiver made legal. The data is clear: these rules were quietly suppressing shipments Americans needed all along.

Read more: https://t.co/YFCeOcK6TR

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

Grocery prices are up 28 percent in five years, overwhelmingly due to inflation. But many longer-standing government policies increase agriculture input costs and food prices by design. Learn more in the Cato "Handbook on Affordability": https://t.co/gOWez6YJpW

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Thomas Sowell: “You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats, procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.”

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“Anything government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost. If government spends $6,000 per child, then I have every confidence that a private competitive enterprise can provide better schooling for $3,000 per child.”

— Milton Friedman

[Marian L Tupy @Marian_L_Tupy]

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[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, per WaPo

[Milei in English - Official Account @jmilei_english]

I am a Type II error: I did everything wrong according to traditional politics, and it turned out right. That is precisely why I am the first libertarian president in history.
LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT...!!!

[Cato Foreign Policy @CatoFP]

@CatoInstitute's @RIKKISCHLOTT sat down with @CatoFP's @Hoffman8Jon to discuss the shifting justifications for the Iran war, the economic and military costs incurred over the first three months, and the lessons that Washington refuses to learn in the Middle East.

Listen to the full interview here:
https://t.co/bg0yf4RSC0

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

37 years ago, China brutally cracked down on protestors at Tiananmen Square.

Let the anniversary remind us of the horrors of communism and the value of freedom.

[Javier Milei Quotes (Fan) @MileiSays]

“In capitalism, you can’t be successful unless you serve others with goods of the best quality. You could be a big business; tomorrow the consumers put the hammer down on you and you will go bankrupt.”

— Javier Milei

[Timothy Sandefur @TimothySandefur]

As we pause to reflect on 250 yrs of Independence, please check out my "Understanding the Declaration" in @TheObjStd.

This is the first of a 3-part excerpt from my new book "Proclaiming Liberty," which goes clause-by-clause through the Dec. to explain. https://t.co/9HWdJLGIpV

[Michael Chapman @MWChapman]

@RpsAgainstTrump 🤣🤣🤣

[Anarchy_Wear @Anarchy_Wear]

"The government is not the solution to our problem, the government is the problem."

by Murray Rothbard

[Michael Chapman @MWChapman]

Why Has Poverty Declined in the US? https://t.co/A59JtngQmI via @CatoInstitute

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

Subsidies cannot solve the health care affordability problem. They help sustain it. Rather than create more government subsidies, policymakers should end supply-side regulations that reduce competition and increase prices.

Cato’s @mfcannon and @dr4liberty propose immediate, supply-side policy changes that would broaden choice and improve affordability. Check out the Cato Institute Handbook on Affordability: https://t.co/SXUe7vDtMj

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

If Massachusetts wants lower rents, the answer is removing barriers to more housing supply, not rent control. The voters rejected rent control in 1994 and should reject it again, argue @jeffreyamiron and Jonah Karafiol.

https://t.co/kxbz1NArNs

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

Letting people and businesses make their own choices—without government interference—leads to better results.

🔊 Henry Hazlitt’s full audiobook:

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

“Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.”

- Ayn Rand

[The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety]

The goal isn't equal poverty. It's rising living standards for all.