The Best of Reason: Abolish the DEA, ICE, and the Small Business Administration

In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending the DEA, ICE, the SBA, and everything else.

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The Best of Reason: Abolish the DEA, ICE, and the Small Business Administration

This week features an assortment of articles from the December 2024 Abolish Everything issue.

"The Next President Should Abolish Everything," by Katherine Mangu-Ward

"Abolish the DEA," by Jacob Sullum

"Abolish ICE," by Fiona Harrigan

"Abolish the Small Business Administration," by Veronique de Rugy

This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.

Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL S and "Sunsettling" by Man With Roses

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[Stupid Government Tricks]

No you did not.

In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending the DEA, ICE, the SBA, and everything else.

The companion article, "Abolish the Federal Alcohol Tax and Regulation System", refers ONLY to the alcohol part of ATF. How curious to not mention the ATF by name, or the various gun control acts by name. And why leave out tobacco too, when you've already listed the DEA?

Very selective in what you want to abolish.

[Chumby]

Abolish JS articles.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

That would reduce the fun of commenting here by half.

[It's only a paper moon, Nominalists]

You can't save your way to a profit and you can't abolish your way to freedom.
Reason seems to almost never step out and say what is right and what should be done, it's all attack and armchair post-mortems.

What gave us those things you want to abolish? It was the Woodrow Wilson rejection of the Founders and substitution of Rule by Experts.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Abolish Tony Fauci.
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/11/26/trump-nominates-stanford-professor-who-sounded-alarm-on-covid-lockdownsand-was-censoredfor-dir-of-nih-n2182519
Trump Nominates Professor Who Sounded Alarm on COVID Lockdowns—and Was Censored—to Lead NIH

[TJJ2000]

The sad part is … “Abolish x,y,z” was the most Libertarian arguments Reason has made all YEAR long and even those were wildly cherry-picked and absurd.

Abolish “national defense” (ICE)? Rather makes the "Libertarians are anarchist" accusations true despite it not being true now doesn’t it.