Sunni, I agree 100%.

The problem I have with libertarian think tanks, is that they are not very libertarian! It irritates me no end that they are pushing "school choice" which is just another government program (largely charters and tax-funded vouchers).

I had a discussion a while back with John Charles who now runs the Portland, Oregon Cascade Policy Institute. Charles was pushing the notion of "congestion pricing", I think he called it, where transponders would note the passage of cars on freeways and bill the drivers depending on the time of day. This was supposed to introduce a bit more market-based pricing into road use. My problem with it was the potential for government tracking of the movements of individuals. He completely pooh-poohed my concerns, yet now we see stories of plans for government to use GPS based tracking of all cars, not just on congested freeways! And all this started in a libertarian think tank.

These think tanks did a lot of good in the early days, but they are almost counterproductive at this point, seems to me.