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]]>The Pro Bowl, the all-star game run by the National Football League (NFL), began in 1951. The first 21 games of the series were played in Los Angeles, California. After that, the game moved cities every year for seven years, before eventually landing a home at Aloha Stadium in Halawa, Hawaii in 1980. Since then, the game has only been played outside of Hawaii twice, in Miami in 2009 and in Glendale in 2015.
This year, the game will return to Hawaii. And when it does, it will return to a lucrative public subsidy thanks to Hawaii's government-run tourism agency.
The Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) allocates funds to promote spectator sports such as the NFL Pro Bowl. Despite having only one yearly event, the Pro Bowl consumes more of the HTA's annual budget than all of the organization's other subsidized events combined while allowing the NFL to keep all of the direct revenue associated with the game.
HTA defends its subsidy of the Pro Bowl by claiming that the television viewership provides advertising for the state, and by claiming the event generates a boom in visitors and tourism spending. The HTA's 2014 economic impact study reported that the 2014 Pro Bowl (the last year it was played in Hawaii) increased the number of visitors by 47,270.
But their annual economic impact reports consistently overplay the benefits of hosting the game. The studies count all fans at the game as "visitors," including local residents who are not tourists and would have been spending money in Hawaii anyway. Total revenue doesn't actually go up. It is merely transferred from other sectors.
Because Hawaii's remote location forces the majority of visitors to arrive by plane, it is easy to estimate the tourism impact of an event. Hawaii's Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism provides daily arrival data at all Hawaiian airports. When excluding locals and tracking flight arrivals, the actual number of visitors is only a fraction of what HTA claims.
The Pro Bowl has left Hawaii twice, and it recently moved from early February to late January. These moves allows for comparisons between tourist activity during the same times with and without the Pro Bowl. A study by Robert Baumann and Victor Matheson, Economics professors at College of the Holy Cross, considered these factors and an additional four years of data. What they ultimately concluded was that the Pro Bowl had no measurable positive economic impact.
Like so many other taxpayer-financed sports events, the Pro Bowl is a bad deal for the public. The Hawaii Tourism Authority and its boosters should take note.
Perhaps they should start with some recent pieces at Reason about sports subsidies:
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]]>Trying to pick a new place to live where the locals are less predatory toward your personal liberty? Well, Jason Sorens of Free State Project fame has crunched the numbers so you don't have to. He examined voting patterns and political donations to detect concentrations of liberty lovers in these here United States. As he puts it:
To see which states have the most libertarians, I use six measures: Libertarian Party presidential vote share in 2008 and 2012, Ron Paul contributions as a share of personal income in 2007-8, Ron Paul and Gary Johnson contributions as a share of income in 2011-12, and "adjusted" Ron Paul primary vote share in 2008 and 2012. Ron Paul vote shares are adjusted for primary vs. caucus, calendar, number of other candidates, and the like.
This is no guarantee that laws and policies in your new digs will be to your liking (for that, look here). But you might find some new friends who will gripe about them with you.
Note: The measure is per capita, but Sorens specifies "it's all ordinal, not cardinal. I couldn't give you a precise count (MT has X many libertarians per capita), just a relative ranking of the states."
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]]>Immigration is good for the United States. That fact is undeniable. So instead of trying to reduce immigration by "securing the border," "completing the dang fence," and forcing all residents to show work papers and all employers to become agents of the federal government, why don't we just let (a lot more of) them in? Here's why the new GOP Congress should welcome more immigrants—even illegals!
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]]>CORRECTION AND UPDATE: In a complete mistake, we classified every state where gay marriage recognition was a result of a judge's ruling as potentially being affected by this Supreme Court decision. Several of these states have legal marriage recognition due to a state judge's interpretation of the state's own constitution, completely unrelated to the 14th Amendment argument. We've updated the map to reflect the difference.
And the timing worked out well to update the map. Not long after we posted it, a federal judge in Alabama struck down that state's ban on gay marriage as a violation of the 14th Amendment. We've updated the map to account for the judge's new ruling. Like the other red states on the map, this new decision could potentially be affected by however the Supreme Court rules this summer.
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]]>For those who are bored with the familiar rhetoric of the State of the Union speeches, we've integrated previous quotes with Cards Against Humanity to create a fun new spin on the game.
If you haven't played, it's very easy. Here are their official rules.
Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people. Unlike most of the party games you've played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.
The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a black card, and everyone else answers with their funniest white card.
We've added our own cards to the mix, which are guaranteed to provide more entertainment than the actual SOTU speech.
And we've also included some fun libertarian cards to add to the mix.
Download a pdf of the cards here and then tell us some of your funniest results.
Commenters: if you come up with enough good card ideas, we may use them in our next expansion pack!
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]]>Here are a few reasons why immigration is GOOD for the U.S.:
So instead of trying to reduce immigration by "securing the border," "completing the dang fence," and forcing ALL residents to show work papers and ALL employers to become agents of the federal government, why don't we just…
Let (a Lot More of) Them In…
In the new Congress, immigrant-friendly lawmakers in both parties can pass laws "that enjoy bipartisan support…to start fixing the system…. These include a GUEST WORKER PROGRAM for low-skilled workers and DEREGULATION of the high-skilled visa program."—Shikha Dalmia, in the February 2015 Reason.
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Written by Nick Gillespie and Amanda Winkler. Produced and edited by Winkler. Graphic art by Jason Keisling.
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]]>The totally unplanned plunge in petty crime police enforcement has continued for a second week in New York City. The New York Times notes, "For the seven days ending Sunday, officers made 2,401 arrests citywide, compared with 5,448 in the same week a year ago, a 56 percent decline. For criminal infractions, most precincts' tallies for the week were close to zero. Citywide, there were 347 criminal summonses written, compared with 4,077 in the same week a year ago, according to Police Department statistics. Parking and traffic tickets also dropped more than 90 percent, the statistics showed."
This is similar to the plunge the week before. So where is surge of people who feel victimized as a result of the lack of police presence? Josh Greenman, an opinion writer for the New York Daily News, tweeted crime stats for last week showing an increase in murder, rape, and robbery, but nevertheless a five percent drop in violent crime when comparing the start of 2014 to the start of 2015.
Last week, when I made note of the first week of the "work stoppage," I added that the city would take a revenue hit when the police don't go around enforcing traffic laws and various petty misdemeanors. In this latest Times story, a president of one police union said that 911 calls are being responded to, but there were much fewer fines. "That's one of those things that will correct itself, I'm sure," he said.
If the union president is saying that the situation will correct itself once the city realizes what it's losing, actually maybe they should check some numbers. I originally thought it was a little bit silly for the New York Police Department to attempt to take a "starve the beast" tactic against its own employers. After all, in many cities, public safety departments are their largest expenses. They are the hungry belly of the beast.
So let's look at New York City's adopted budget for the 2015 fiscal year, and pull out some figures that perhaps the police unions should keep in mind when it thinks its behavior is hurting the city's bottom line. The biggest surprise is that, yes, the city does get a lot of money from fines, but not even enough to pay a quarter of the salaries of the city's police officers.
I included the cigarette taxes, since Eric Garner's death and the reasons behind it have helped fuel this fight. The city also gets $535 million in hotel taxes, thus the targeting of Airbnb room-sharing services. Anyway, this should make it clear that the police are dependent on the money the city gets from sources outside of the police enforcement of the law in order to continue to do their work. That's not always the case with cities, especially small ones, but it certainly is for New York City.
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]]>It's hard to say that 2014 was a stoundout year for epic government screwups, scandals, and embarrassments. After all, H. L. Mencken commented decades ago that "every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." He was absolutely right, but hardly original (as he no doubt would have conceded). That sad realization was already hoary with age then.
But it's true that government officials put the time in over the past 12 months to ensure that Mencken's words continue to ring true. Below, in no special order, are a few of the notable stupid government tricks of the year gone by.
Ferguson and America's internal army of occupation
Concerned civil libertarians and policy watchers, including Reason writers, long warned that law enforcement agencies look less every year like your neighborhood beat cop and more like the Russian army touring Ukraine. By and large, those warnings went unheeded by the public, most of whose members saw little to fear from the "thin blue line" they were assured stood between them and America's transformation into Somalia with good burger joints.
Then Ferguson happened. The controversial shooting of Michael Brown sparked protests in the Missouri community. In turn, police responded with a bizarre and intimidating display of heavy weapons, camouflage uniforms, and armored vehicles.
"If you don't want to get shot…just do what I tell you," Officer Sunil Dutta of the Los Angeles Police Department wrote in the Washington Post in response to those horrified by the display.
Despite such defenses, Missouri police pulled in their paramilitary horns as the Ferguson protests continued. But new incidents, including the videorecorded killing of Eric Garner by a New York City police officer, largely over untaxed cigarettes, kept police-civilian relations in the headlines across the entire country.
That debate continues. But military equipment continues to flow to police departments, including nearly 4,000 assault rifles just since the Ferguson riots.
The Secret Service loses its gloss
Wasn't there a time when the Secret Service had a reputation as an elite investigative and protective force? Sure there was! Charged with foiling counterfeiters and shielding V.I.P.s including the president from harm, Secret Service agents were once cheesy movie-worthy.
That image may be a tad tarnished after this year.
It didn't help the Secret Service that a White House aide was implicated in carousing with prostitutes in Colombia—nobody expects politicians and their minions to refrain from engaging in friendly relations with constituents, friendly foreigners, or strangers they meet in dark alleys. But the Secret Service itself was dinged when it turned out that its employees not only like sex (honestly, so what?), but that, more seriously, they run out on the tab when it comes time to pay up for their fun.
That's not cool.
But a taste for booze and hookers didn't implicate the Secret Service's core competencies. Screwing up on protecting the White House did that. In September, Iraq war veteran Omar Gonzalez jumped the White House fence armed with a knife and got all the way into the East Room before he was stopped.
Whoops!
Now the question isn't whether the Secret Service has screwed the pooch (and skipped on the check). It's whether it's been asked to do too much, or just got competency cooties from its association with the gormless Department of Homeland Security.
The Veterans Health Administration—deadlier than an IED
The creeping U.S. welfare state may lack the cradle-to-grave coverage that's bankrupting our European cousins in such continental style, but federal agencies are trying. The Department of Veterans Affairs, through the Veterans Health Administration, certainly has the grave part down.
By gaming waiting lists, and hiding the number of vets who were actually in line for health care, VA officials jazzed up their performance reviews and qualified for bonuses. And, oh yeah, they killed people. Even the VA's own assistant inspector general concedes the lethal connection.
Veterans certainly deserve better treatment than they've been receiving. Unfortunately, this year's scandal is only the latest evidence that the federal department created to assist them isn't up to the job. Year after year, the quality of the health care provided to those who have served in the armed forces has proven substandard and sometimes dangerous. It's just that this year that mistreatment took on a deliberate air.
CDC's handling of Ebola was almost as scary as the disease
Speaking of health care, when the Ebola scare hit this year (and yes, it's still a scourge in Africa) the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the agency responsible for leading the U.S. response to such health threats, responded with guidelines that were "absolutely irresponsible and dead wrong," in the words of an infectious disease expert.
Uh oh.
Those guidelines contributed to infection—Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where two nurses caught Ebola from a patient, followed them—but fortunately no deaths. The CDC finally corrected its error in October by essentially cribbing new guidelines from Doctors Without Borders, the private organization based in France that's the recognized international leader when it comes to coping with the world's nastier diseases.
The very public screwup of the Ebola response followed the CDC's complete mishandling of samples of anthrax and bird flu. In two separate incidents, CDC personnel were accidentally exposed to the first disease, while a dangerous dose of the second was mistakenly shipped to a laboratory expecting something a bit less virulent.
The CDC's tendency in recent years to allow itself to be distracted by public health bugaboos of the moment, such as tobacco, got much of the blame for its bungled response to a true health threat.
Then again, it could have been worse. The Department of Homeland Security turned out to have ill-considered stockpiles of expired and misplaced supplies for dealing with the sort of pandemic that Ebola happily did not become. And while the CDC might be a bit butter-fingered with its samples it didn't follow the lead of the National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration by forgetting about vials of smallpox, dengue, influenza, Q fever, and ricksettsia in an unused storeroom.
The Social Security Administration catches up on very old paperwork
Sometimes, the Social Security Administration (SSA) overpays benefits to recipients, and then needs to grab the overpayments back. Social Security officials are also a little bit behind on their clerical duties. Read "little" to mean "decades." So the SSA then enlists the IRS to help it go after people for debts incurred by a government paperwork screwup decades ago.
In at least some cases that made the headlines in 2014, the government intercepted tax refunds to adults because, bureaucrats claimed, they benefited from Social Security overpayments made to their now-dead parents in the 1960s and 1970s.
After suitably negative press and widespread public condemnation, Social Security announced a "halt to further referrals under the Treasury Offset Program to recover debts owed to the agency that are 10 years old and older."
So all's well that ends well. For now.
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]]>Nevermind that Alabama voters went the other way, and amended their state constitution to shield gun rights from easy restriction. That, apparently, isn't a courageous voter move at all.
But the brave new world of voter-empowered gun control faces another hurdle that reaches beyond the boundaries of the Cotton State. It turns out that growing numbers of Americans believe having guns in their homes makes them safer, while declining numbers consider the practice dangerous. The cultural shift has been ongoing for years, and across partisan divides.
In 2014, reports Gallup, 63 percent of Americans consider having guns at home to make them safer, compared to 35 percent in 2000. Only 30 percent say that makes their homes more dangerous, down from 51 percent in 2000. Republicans have seen the greatest increase in support for the idea that guns make you safer, from 44 percent to 81 percent. But Independents increased their support for that idea from 35 percent to 64 percent. Democratic support rose from 28 percent to 41 percent.
Gun controllers may win an occasional ballot box victory imposing some restrictions on gun ownership, but Americans' opinions of what constitute "responsible solutions" when it comes to firearms aren't moving in their direction.
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]]>A Reddit user recently posted a graphic called "The Venn Diagram of Cultural Politics," showing which states allow at least some citizens to use marijuana, which states recognize gay marriages, and which do both. The chart got us wondering: Which places embrace the personal freedoms beloved by the left and the right? Where can you buy both a vibrator and a Big Gulp? Where can a gay couple not just marry but avoid a high sin tax on the cigarettes they smoke after sex? Where can you carry a gun while passing a joint?
The image below tackles that last question. If you include states that have legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes only, there are now 24 states that permit pot. There are 42 states where an adult non-felon's right to carry a concealed gun is either unrestricted or subject only to permissive "shall issue" laws. Sixteen states fall into both categories.
If you narrow the question, though—limiting yourself to places that allow marijuana even without a prescription and concealed carry even without a permit—the intersection shrinks to contain just one state. The Guns and Dope Party has found its regional base.
This chart was updated to note New York and Minnesota's restrictions on smokeable pot.
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]]>The Controlled Substance Act, passed in 1970 and signed by President Nixon as a part of a "comprehensive" plan on drug abuse prevention, made marijuana an illegal substance in the United States, the culmination of decades of increased regulation and prohibition of marijuana and other narcotics around the country. Some states followed up federal efforts with draconian laws of their own, like New York, whose governor, Nelson Rockefeller, gave his name to some of the harshest anti-drug laws in the country. By 1978, New York and nine other states had set up some kind of decriminalization of marijuana—in Alaska via a state supreme court decision that found Alaskans had a right to privacy that protected using marijuana in the home but in other states via legislation.
But then nothing happened until a few states passed medical marijuana laws beginning in the late 1990s. Over the last decade, buoyed by a steady and significant shift in public opinion toward marijuana, several states have moved toward more decriminalization and, where pushed hardest by voters, to legalization. In 2012, voters in Washington and Colorado approved initiatives to legalize marijuana in the state. Tomorrow, voters in Oregon, Alaska and D.C. do, while voters in Florida and Guam vote on medical marijuana.
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]]>More U.S. citizens (4) have died from Obama's drone strikes than from Ebola (1). Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan took more American lives (6,802, just counting troops) than all Ebola deaths (4,555) worldwide. The threat presented by Ebola should in no way be downplayed, but it is time Americans focus on the dangers of the U.S. foreign policy.
Note: This post has been edited to clarify language about the relative dangers posed by Ebola and the U.S. government.
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]]>As the nation prepares for the second enrollment period under The Affordable Care Act in November, there is officially no way of figuring out what Obamacare is going to do to federal deficits compared to the estimates used to push the program through Congress.
Back in 2009, it was really important to President Obama that people understand he would not "sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits—either now or in the future. Period." He sold the plan as costing about $938 billion in its first decade of operation (2010 through 2019) but saving about $143 billion overall because of the various taxes and other revenue it raised. A 2012 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report figured that Obamacare would shave $109 billion off the deficit between 2013 and 2022.
This past June, however, the CBO said it will no longer try to estimate the law's effects on the deficit. There have been too many delays, postponements, modifications, you name it, to the original bill. "Isolating the incremental effects of those provisions on previously existing programs and revenues four years after enactment of the Affordable Care Act is not possible," the CBO concluded.
So what's going on? The deficit for fiscal year 2014, which ended on September 30, came in at "just" $483 billion and 2.8 percent of GDP, the lowest figures in years. President Obama was quick to say it was because of his signature health-care reform plan. "Healthcare has long been the single biggest driver of America's future deficits," reports The Hill. "Healthcare is now the single biggest factor driving those deficits down."
At the same time, the CBO (and everyone else) expects deficits to start growing again in fiscal 2016, so it's a bit premature to break out the bubbly just yet. Senate Republicans have just released a report based on CBO data claiming that Obamacare will end up adding $300 billion to federal deficits between 2015 and 2024.
The Republican report is ultimately a political document, so its methods and conclusions deserve to be taken with more than a few grains of salt. But if past experience with massive government-run health care programs is any indicator, the odds are high that Obamacare will end up costing way more than it was supposed to.
Indeed, all signs suggest that overall health-care spending, including the government's already-large share, will keep growing over the next decade.
Official figures show that local, state, and federal governments will spend a record-high 46 percent of all health-care dollars this year and the percentage is expected to grow over the next decade, to 48 percent.
The New York Times reports that by 2023, all spending on health care will equal 19.3 percent of GDP, which is "two percentage points more than last year." So whether it's through taxes, increased premiums, or out-of-pocket costs, we'll be paying more for health care in the coming years.
If that's disappointing, it's not exactly surprising. Government-run health-care programs have a track record of costing more than advertised.
Here are three examples to think about as the health care reform law gears up for its second year of sign-ups (for more information, go here).
1. Massachusetts Commonwealth Care. This is the plan supported by Gov. Mitt Romney that provided the very model for Obamacare. It guaranteed universal coverage and subsidized insurance premiums for low-income residents. Initial cost estimates came in at $472 million while actual costs were closer to $628 million for an error ratio of 1.2:1.
2. Medicare. In 1967, Congress estimated that the nation's single-payer system for the elderly, Medicare, would cost $12 billion in 1990. The actual price tag was $110 billion, for an error ratio on 9.17:1.
3. Medicaid DSH program. Medicaid pays for health insurance for the poor (its expansion represents the main way Obamacare in enrolling new beneficiaries). The "disproportionate share hospital program" (DSH) gives money to facilities that serve a large number of poor patients. In 1987, Congress figured DSH payments would be less than $1 billion in 1991. Instead, they totaled $17 billion, creating an error ratio of 17:1.
Read more about phony-baloney health care accounting here and here. And check out Reason's special collection of new stories about "The Sad Story of Obamacare."
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]]>Gulf War (source)
Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, the United States
Iraq War (source)
Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States Uzbekistan.
Isis Conflict (source)
Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Iraqi Kurdistan, Jordan, the Netherlands, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom
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]]>In fact, American recognition of the controversial declaration helped Israel build legitimacy as a state. To this day, about 31 countries don't formally recognize the State of Israel. Iran's one of them, and we may not give them any money, but while we spend $3.1 billion a year on aid to Israel we also spend $4.1 billion on aid to countries that don't formally recognize Israel.
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