April 21, 2011 9:44AM 

# Thursday Links 

By George Scoville 

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- [Higher deficits and debt](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jagadeesh-gokhale/higher-taxes-or-smaller-e_b_851620.html) mean we must confront entitlements and re-think the way government insurance creates perverse incentives that increase our dependence.
- [Higher gas prices](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13039) have nothing to do with Wall Street speculators.
- [Higher polemics against limited government](http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/265067/obama-has-no-budget-plan-michael-tanner) aren’t going to restore our fiscal sanity.
- [Higher taxes on soda](https://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv34n1/regv34n1-3.pdf) will have little, if any, effect on our waistlines.
- Please join us **one week from tomorrow, on Friday, April 29 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern** for [a special sneak preview of *Free or Equal*](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=7899), a documentary from [Free to Choose Media](http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/). In this one-hour film, Cato Senior Fellow [Johan Norberg](https://www.cato.org/people/johan-norberg) retraces Milton Friedman’s steps from the trailblazing 1980 documentary *Free to Choose* to see how economic liberalization has transformed societies around the world. Norberg will introduce *Free and Equal*, and will answer questions following the screening. [Complimentary registration](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=7899) is required of all attendees by **noon Eastern on Thursday, April 28**. Until then, please enjoy [this preview](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5QM2CUmqGc): And don’t miss Milton Friedman’s 1988 essay in the *Cato Policy Report*, “[Using the Market for Social Development](https://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/cpr-10n6-friedman.html),” an excellent primer to some of the topics addressed in the two films.

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