Libertas Utah Articles

Personal Freedom

Utah Affirms Privacy Rights in Banking Data

The resolution argues that forcing banking institutions to make such a choice breaks down trust between consumers and financial institutions.

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dog trainer licensure
Op-Eds

No, dog trainers and boarders do not need strict licensing

The knee-jerk reaction to more tightly regulate industries and professions every time a customer is dissatisfied tends to hurt honest professionals, who are just trying to do their jobs, more than it prevents negative outcomes.

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Free Market

Utah Businesses Shouldn’t Comply with Biden’s OSHA Vaccine Mandate

The 490-page mandate from OSHA — the federal agency issuing this mandate without Congressional review — has no end date, and also requires business owners to ensure that "each employee who is not fully vaccinated wears a face covering."

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Op-Eds

I’m pro-life, so I’m anti-capital punishment

I didn’t always oppose the death penalty. In fact, when someone on my team told me that our organization should take a stand against it, I scoffed. I couldn’t imagine not putting murderers to death for their egregious crimes.

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Free Market

North Carolina Jumps in the Sandbox

North Carolina now joins several other states that have created industry-specific sandboxes, helping innovative businesses avoid problematic and outdated regulations. 

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Free Market

Tuttle Twins Didn’t Take Your Tax Dollars

This high-quality kids cartoon, which will — like our wildly popular books — teach the ideas of freedom to the rising generation, was directly funded by those who wanted to will it into existence. Put differently… no taxpayers were harmed in the making of this show.

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