An Evolving Debate
January, 2000
The Cost of RightsJames Bovard's outburst at a book written by me and University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein ("The Cost of Rights," The Playboy Forum, October) leaves me feeling like a mosquito in a nudist colony: I don't know where to begin. The theme of our book, The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes, is the budgetary cost of nonwelfare rights. Property rights, freedom of contract, the right to vote, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure and so forth all...
