Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto (26 page)

21.  Scherer, “New IRS Scandal Echoes a Long History of Political Harassment.”

22.  “Lois Lerner to 1996 US Senate Candidate Al Salvi: ‘We’ll Get You!’ ”
Illinois Review,
June 3, 2013, http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2013/06/lerner-asked-salvi-for-200000-plus-never-run-again-promise.html (accessed September 16, 2013).

23.  Josh Hicks, “Republicans Say IRS E-mails from Lois Lerner Show ‘Abuse of Power,’ ”
Washington Post,
September 13, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/09/13/republicans-say-irs-e-mails-from-lois-lerner-show-abuse-of-power (accessed September 16, 2013).

24.  Ibid.

25.  Timothy P. Carney, “The IRS Is Deeply Political and Very Democratic,”
Washington Examiner,
May 15, 2013, http://washingtonexaminer.com/tim-carney-the-irs-is-deeply-political-and-very-democratic/article/2529758 (accessed September 16, 2013).

26.  “IRS Chief Says He’d Rather Not Switch to ObamaCare Plan,” Fox News, August 1, 2013, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/01/irs-chief-says-hed-rather-not-switch-over-to-obamacare-plan (accessed September 3, 2013).

27.  National Treasury Employees Union action alert, http://capwiz.com/nteu/issues/alert/?alertid=62634726&type=CO&utm_source=Illinois+Policy+Institute&utm_campaign=7790111647-0613_ecompass&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0f5a22f52c-7790111647-10830129 (accessed September 19, 2013).

28.  Wenton Hall, “IRS Org Chart Puts Ingram, Lerner at Center of Power,” Breitbart.com, May 23, 2013, http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/23/EXCLUSIVE-IRS-Org-Chart-Puts-Ingram-and-Lerner-At-Center-of-Power (accessed September 16, 2013).

29.  “Members Only: How the White House Is Weaseling Congress Out of ObamaCare,”
Wall Street Journal,
August 7, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324522504578654193173779414.html (accessed August 27, 2013).

30.  Historical Federal Workforce Tables, U.S. Office of Personnel Management: Data, Analysis & Documentation, http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-documentation/federal-employment-reports/historical-tables/total-government-employment-since-1962 (accessed August 26, 2013).

31.  Ruth Alexander, “Which Is the World’s Biggest Employer?,” BBC News, March 19, 2012, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17429786 (accessed August 26, 2013).

32.  “IRS Scrutiny of Non-profit Organizations,” C-SPAN, June 4, 2013.

Chapter 4: Gray-Suited Soviets

  1.  Jehiel Keeler Hoyt,
The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
(1896), 763.

  2.  “Obama on NSA Surveillance: Can’t Have 100% Security and 100% Privacy,” RT.com, June 7, 2013, http://rt.com/usa/obama-surveillance-nsa-monitoring-385 (accessed September 9, 2013).

  3.  Tal Kopan, “Lindsey Graham ‘Glad’ NSA Tracking Phones,” Politico, June 6, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/lindsey-graham-nsa-tracking-phones-92330.html (accessed September 9, 2013).

  4.  Ludwig von Mises,
Human Action
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1949), 283.

  5.  Sarah Kliff, “White House Delays Employer Mandate Requirement until 2015,”
Washington Post,
July 2, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/02/white-house-delays-employer-mandate-requirement-until-2015 (accessed September 26, 2013).

  6.  Megan R. Wilson, “ObamaCare’s Architects Reap Windfall as Washington Lobbyists,”
The Hill,
August 25, 2013, http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/318577-architects-of-obamacare-reap-windfall-as-washington-lobbyists (accessed September 23, 2013).

  7.  Elijah E. Cummings and Sander M. Levin, “Reform the IRS, but Leave Politics out of It,”
Washington Post,
August 12, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/reform-the-irs-but-leave-politics-out-of-it/2013/08/12/64c5d36c-0362-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story.html (accessed September 23, 2013).

  8.  Political Calculations, “How Many Pages Long Is the U.S. Income Tax Code in 2013?,”
Town Hall,
Finance, February 17, 2013, http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2013/02/17/how-many-pages-long-is-the-us-income-tax-code-in-2013-n1514277 (accessed August 23, 2013).

  9.  Kelly Phillips Erb, “Tax Code Hits Nearly 4 Million Words, Taxpayer Advocate Calls It Too Complicated,”
Forbes,
January 10, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2013/01/10/tax-code-hits-nearly-4-million-words-taxpayer-advocate-calls-it-too-complicated/ (accessed August 23, 2013).

10.  Guinness World Records, http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-1/longest-novel/ (accessed August 23, 2013).

11.  Patricia Murphy, “IRS Commissioner Does Not Do His Own Taxes,”
Politics Daily,
January 8, 2010, http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/01/12/irs-commissioner-admits-he-does-not-do-his-own-taxes (accessed August 23, 2013).

12.  Janet Novack, “Tax Waste: 6.1 Billion Hours Spent Complying with Federal Tax Code,”
Forbes,
January 5, 2011, http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2011/01/05/tax-waste-6-1-billion-hours-spent-complying-with-federal-tax-code (accessed September 9, 2013).

13.  Jason J. Fichtner and Jacob Feldman, “The Hidden Costs of Tax Compliance,” Mercatus Center, May 20, 2013, http://mercatus.org/publication/hidden-costs-tax-compliance (accessed September 9, 2013).

14.  Leslie Bonacum and Eric Scott, “When It Comes To Tax Law, It’s Complicated,” CCH, January 2012, http://www.cch.com/wbot2012/020TaxCode.asp (accessed September 9, 2013).

15.  Alexandra Wexler, “Sugar Free Trade Sours for Taxpayers,”
Wall Street Journal,
November 19, 2013, http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/11/19/sugar-free-trade-sours-for-taxpayers (accessed December 15, 2013).

16.  Wendy McElroy, “Decriminalize the Average Man,” Ludwig von Mises Institute, October 12, 2010, http://mises.org/daily/5759 (accessed August 23, 2013).

17.  Avik Roy, “How Employer-Sponsored Insurance Drives Up Health Costs,”
Forbes,
May 12, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/05/12/how-employer-sponsored-insurance-drives-up-health-costs (accessed September 9, 2013).

18.  Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, “Annual Limits Policy: Protecting Consumers, Maintaining Options, and Building a Bridge to 2014,” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, January 6, 2012, http://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resources/Files/approved_applications_for_waiver.html (accessed September 18, 2013).

19.  Becket Adams, “How Many Are Exempt? The Final Number of ‘ObamaCare’ Waivers Is In,”
The Blaze,
January 6, 2012, http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/01/06/how-many-businesses-are-exempt-the-final-number-of-obamacare-waivers-is-in (accessed September 3, 2013).

20.  Alex Nussbaum, “ObamaCare Unleashes Benefit Changes from Companies,” Bloomberg, September 19, 2013, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-19/obamacare-unleashes-benefit-changes-from-companies.html (accessed September 23, 2013).

21.  Avik Roy, “The Obamacare Exchange Scorecard: Around 100,000 Enrollees and Five Million Cancellations,”
Forbes,
November 12, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/11/12/the-obamacare-exchange-scorecard-around-100000-enrollees-and-five-million-cancell ations (accessed December 5, 2013).

22.  Mike Emmanuel, “Second Wave of Health Plan Cancellations Looms,” Fox News, November 20, 2013, http://aei.org/article/health/second-wave-of-health-plan-cancellations-looms (accessed December 5, 2013).

23.  “Members Only: How the White House Is Weaseling Congress Out of ObamaCare,”
Wall Street Journal,
August 7, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324522504578654193173779414.html (accessed August 27, 2013).

24.  Glenn Kessler, “Did Obama Exempt 1,200 Groups, Including Congress, from Obamacare?”
The Washington Post,
October 16, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2013/10/16/did-obama-exempt-1200-groups-including-congress-from-obamacare (accessed December 12, 2013).

25.  Jennifer G. Hickey, “Democrats Act to Stop Vitter Amendment, Keep ObamaCare Exemptions for Congress,”
NewsMax,
September 17, 2013, http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/vitter-obamacare-congress-exemptions/2013/09/17/id/526269 (accessed September 23, 2013).

26.  Avik Roy, “Yet Another White House ObamaCare Delay: Out-Of-Pocket Caps Waived Until 2015,”
Forbes,
August 13, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/08/13/yet-another-white-house-obamacare-delay-out-of-pocket-caps-waived-until-2015 (accessed September 9, 2013).

27.  Internal Revenue Service Oversight Hearing, C-SPAN, April 9, 2013, http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/OversightHearing (accessed September 19, 2013).

28.  Robert E. Barnes on behalf of John Doe Company et al., Class Action Complaint, Superior Court of the State of California for San Diego, March 11, 2013, http://global.nationalreview.com/pdf/complaint_051513.pdf (accessed August 19, 2013).

29.  Internal Revenue Service Oversight Hearing, C-SPAN.

30.  Jake Sherman, “Nancy Pelosi Says She’s ‘Proud’ of Obamacare,”
Politico,
October 30, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/nancy-pelosi-says-shes-proud-of-obamacare-99102.html (accessed December 5, 2013).

31.  “Transcript of Obama’s Announcement on Health Insurance,”
Wall Street Journal,
November 14, 2013, http://blogs.marketwatch.com/capitolreport/2013/11/14/transcript-of-obamas-announcement-on-health-insurance (accessed December 12, 2013).

32.  Avik Roy, “HHS Inspector General: Obamacare Privacy Protections Way Behind Schedule; Rampant Violations of Law Possible,”
Forbes,
August 7, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/08/07/hhs-inspector-general-obamacare-privacy-protections-way-behind-schedule-rampant-v iolations-of-law-possible (accessed September 9, 2013).

33.  John Merline, “Think NSA Spying Is Bad? Here Comes ObamaCare Hub,”
Investor’s Business Daily,
June 25, 2013, http://news.investors.com/062513-661264-obamacare-database-hub-creates-privacy-nightmare.htm (accessed September 9, 2013).

34.  
Identity Theft Resource Center,
“2013 Data Breach Stats,” August 9, 2013, http://www.idtheftcenter.org/images/breach/Breach_Stats_Report_2013.pdf (accessed December 5, 2013).

35.  Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, “Some Taxpayers Were Not Appropriately Notified When Their Personally Identifiable Information Was Inadvertently Disclosed,” May 24, 2011, http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2011reports/201140054fr.pdf (accessed September 9, 2013).

36.  Thomas Hargrove, “Social Security Kept Silent About Private Data Breach,”
Seattle Times,
October 13, 2011, http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2016498264_socialsecurity14.html (accessed September 9, 2013).

37.  Merline, “Think NSA Spying Is Bad? Here Comes ObamaCare Hub.”

38.  Patrick Meehan and James Lankford, “A Closer Look at the ObamaCare Data Hub,”
The Hill,
August 2, 2013, http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/315083-a-closer-look-at-the-obamacare-data-hub (accessed September 9, 2013).

39.  “Your Next IRS Political Audit,”
Wall Street Journal,
May 14, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324715704578481461934680982.html (accessed September 9, 2013).

40.  Department of Health and Human Services, “Notice to Establish a New System of Records,”
Federal Register,
vol. 78, no. 25, February 6, 2013, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-02-06/html/2013-02666.htm (accessed September 9, 2013).

41.  Ashton Ellis, “ObamaCare’s ‘Data Hub’ Should Be Its Death Knell,” Center for Individual Freedom, July 25, 2013, http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/56-health-care/1910-obamacares-data-hub-should-be-its-death-knell (accessed September 9, 2013).

42.  John Fund, “ObamaCare’s Branch of the NSA,”
National Review,
July 22, 2013, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/354031/obamacares-branch-nsa-john-fund (accessed September 9, 2013).

Chapter 5: Same as the Old Boss

  1.  James M. Buchanan and Richard E. Wagner,
Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes
(Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc. 1999).

  2.  John Maynard Keynes,
A Tract on Monetary Reform
(London: MacMillan & Co. 1923).

  3.  Thomas Schatz, “Putting the National Debt in Perspective,”
Daily Caller,
September 19, 2012, http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/19/putting-the-national-debt-in-perspective (accessed September 27, 2013).

  4.  Steve Hargreaves, “Labor Participation Lowest Since 1978,”
CNN Money,
September 6, 2013, http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/06/news/economy/labor-force-participation/index.html (accessed September 27, 2013).

  5.  Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Table A-10. Selected Unemployment Indicators, Seasonally Adjusted,” http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t10.htm (accessed September 27, 2013).

  6.  Richard Fry, “A Rising Share of Young Adults Live in Their Parents’ Home,” Pew Research, August 1, 2013, http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/08/01/a-rising-share-of-young-adults-live-in-their-parents-home (accessed September 27, 2013).

  7.  Heidi Moore, “U.S. Student Loan Debt by the Numbers,”
Guardian,
April 2, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/apr/03/student-loan-debt-america-by-the-numbers (accessed September 27, 2013).

  8.  Joe Light, “Many Graduates Delay Job Searches,”
Wall Street Journal,
June 3, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576363783070164132.html (accessed September 27, 2013).

  9.  Donghoon Lee, “Household Debt and Credit: Student Debt,” Federal Reserve Bank of New York, February 28, 2013, http://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/mediaadvisory/2013/Lee022813.pdf (accessed August 26, 2013).

10.  “Average Net Price for Full-Time Students over Time—Public Institutions,” Trends in Higher Education, http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-net-price-full-time-students-over-time-public-institutions (accessed September 27, 2013).