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Joe Abraham argues in a Fox News opinion column that the January 19, 2025 death of his 20-year-old daughter Katie in Urbana, Illinois exposes a systemic failure of policy accountability rooted in concentrated government power.
Katie and a second young woman were killed when an intoxicated driver struck their stopped vehicle at nearly 80 miles per hour while the car sat at a red light; three others were seriously injured.
Abraham, who says he spent the past year examining both individual conduct and institutional policy, frames the tragedy through the warnings of Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Thomas Sowell—three economists he argues foresaw exactly this kind of accountability collapse.
The Crash and the Policy Connection Katie was a college student visiting friends in Urbana when the crash occurred on January 19, 2025.
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