This is not a “technical” issue. It’s about freedom - which happens to be a “political” issue.
Yes, there are issues of freedom therein.
Trouble is, yahoos like the CATO guys are completely oblivious to larger, longer-term freedom issues: eg, can we develop an energy policy that would cut us loose of middle eastern oil? If we could do that, we could simply walk away from a great deal of turmoil, both financially and militarily.
CATO wants “the free market” to prevail. What these Utopians fail to realize is that there are no free markets in anything other than contraband.
Amen to that. I am a scientist and what these people support is more religion than science and is an outright abuse of scientific method. They skip straight from the hypothesis step to the conclusion step, all the while ignoring or paying mere tangential attention to the repeatable testing experimentation step.