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Welcome to the Cato Institute. I am the director for the center for constitutional studies and together with the Federalist Society, we are hosting todays forum. I want to thank the Federalist Society dean and julie who are with us today for their assistance in organizing the forum and also want to welcome those that are seeing us through cspan and our live stream audience as well. We are here to discuss an important subject, the Permission Society, the title of a new book by the Goldwater Institute tim sandefur, the Permission Society how the ruling class turns our freedoms into privileges and what we can do about it. This book documents the many ways especially since the progressive era the presumption of liberty and freedom is at the heart of the founding principles and documents and has been extinguished in favor of the perception of government with individuals having to obtain permission to government officials before being able to act. Property owners have long experienced this r
For for. Further assistance in organizing the forum and those of us on cspan and in the audience as well. We are here to discuss an important subject, the Permission Society, the title of a new book by the Goldwater Institute tim sandefur, how the ruling class turns our freedoms and privileges and what we can do about it. This book documents the many ways especially since the progressive era that the presumption of liberty to the freedom of the heart of our founding principles and documents has been extinguished in favor of the presumption of government with individuals having to obtain permission from the Government Officials before being able to act. Before they can make any changes in the property they have a range of permits from the zoning board all the way up to the Environmental Protection agency and the u. S. Army corps of engineers, the resulting often and extremely huge expenses and lengthy delays but it doesnt the speech starting and running the business. We will discuss the
The last theres been a lot of talk about over last generation, the last 40 years really highlights the challenges of measuring economic values. A lot of people take the view that there hasnt been much progress, much growth in incomes, economic stagnation over that period of time. And i often try to put the lie to that assertion by asking people to whether theyre low income, middle income, high income, raise your hand if you wanting to back to 1975 and there usually arent a lot of takers. But one think is undeniable is we have been living through a period of economic stagnation and im peter and joined the Cato Institution a year ago as president and over that time brink linsey has done a job trying to explore growth slowdown, one is understanding the growth slowdown and another is reviving Economic Growth. For the first time in my life we had gdp growth hasnt reached 3 and at the time i joined cato 13 months ago i was hopeful i was actually hopeful because when we lived through economic
Marriage on the oneyear anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling, and america has drifted from the founders original ideas of liberty and justice. And those are just a few of the authors on booktv this weekend. For a complete television schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] were going to get started. I have a lot of books to mention, so i want to make sure i get them right. Thanks for all being here, and thanks especially to the folks on our panel, mark, steve and george. Were really pleased that youre here. The last theres been a lot of talk about that over the last generation, maybe the last 40 years really highlights the challenges of measuring economic values. A lot of people take the view there hasnt been much progress, much growth in incomes, economic stagnation over that period of time. And i often try to put the lie to that assertion by asking people whether theyre low income, midd