But regulation is a leading source of poverty. Licensing laws cartelize businesses, rent control creates homelessness, the war on drugs ruins the opportunities of hundred of thousands of people, and ethanol subsidies, mandates, and tariffs raise food prices. I don't see why it is a lie to say that the state creates poverty. http://www.amazon.com/State-Against-Blacks-Walter-Williams/dp/0070703787
http://www.amazon.com/State-Against-Blacks-Walter-Williams/dp/0070703787
http://www.amazon.com/War-Poor-Clarence-Buford-Carson/dp/0870000551/ref=sr_1_15?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373124962&sr=1-15&keywords=clarence+carson
http://www.amazon.com/Federal-Bulldozer-Martin-Anderson/dp/0070016402/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373124991&sr=1-2&keywords=the+federal+bulldozer
These books talk about the institutional disadvantages the poor face due to laws.
But regulation is a leading source of poverty. Licensing laws cartelize businesses, rent control creates homelessness, the war on drugs ruins the opportunities of hundred of thousands of people, and ethanol subsidies, mandates, and tariffs raise food prices. I don't see why it is a lie to say that the state creates poverty.
http://www.amazon.com/State-Against-Blacks-Walter-Williams/dp/0070703787
http://www.amazon.com/The-Poor-Clarence-Buford-Carson/dp/0870000551
http://www.amazon.com/Federal-Bulldozer-Martin-Anderson/dp/0070016402/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1
http://www.amazon.com/Excluded-Americans-Homelessness-Housing-Policies/dp/0895265516
http://www.amazon.com/Libertarian-Poverty-Repairing-Mobility-ebook/dp/B007KM6AO6
http://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Michelle-Alexander/dp/1595586431