Free Market

We allow people to eat sugary foods despite the adverse health effects. The same respect for individual choice should extend to other risky behaviors.
Kids can handle more than we plan for. They can figure out what their supplies cost, talk to strangers, shake off a slow day, and work out what to try next. What most of them are missing is a first yes: someone who puts the idea in front of them and then gets out of the way.
Three families share how local housing rules shape who can afford to live in their towns, and why showing up to the meetings matters.
A child needing government permission to sell lemonade is absurd, and it is one we have worked on at Libertas for years.
When governments force specific terms of employment on businesses, they prevent individuals and businesses from negotiating the terms that best suit their circumstances. 
In one city, the government imposes land-use regulations that make those types of housing difficult or impossible to build. In another, property owners have much more freedom to subdivide their land and build the housing they want.

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