<story><title>The Problem with Civil Asset Forfeiture (2016)</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2959039</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>data_monkey</author><text>The expression &amp;quot;this is why we can&amp;#x27;t have nice things&amp;quot; comes to mind. Like their FISA powers, spying on communications of journalists with surveillance powers, political abuses within the IRS, etc the government has massively abused asset forfeiture as well and we should return to a liberty centric mindset. No forfeiture without conviction by a jury.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The government has proven they aren&amp;#x27;t angels we can trust.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Problem with Civil Asset Forfeiture (2016)</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2959039</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>actionfromafar</author><text>Wouldn&amp;#x27;t much of the perverse incentive be fixed if the assets were transferred to some other organization, such as the central state or federal budget.</text></comment>