If Cato Was CATO, What Would it Stand For?

Since I started working at Cato, I’ve become more sensitive to the fact that folks often write it “CATO.” Now, this may be because of the the logo, which is all caps, but lots of organizations have logos in all caps, and people don’t write it that way. So I think folks must think CATO is some kind of acronym, like the CIA or something. This suggests a comments box game! If Cato was really CATO and CATO was an acronym, what would it stand for?

I’ll get you started. Kelly in the Westminster rumpus room suggests “Center for Advanced Tautological Observation.” Now you!

31 thoughts on “If Cato Was CATO, What Would it Stand For?”

Commentators Attacking The Orthodoxy

Critical Admonishment of the Taxing Oligarchs

Well, this it Tom Palmer’s joke, but “Central Atlantic Treaty Organization.”

If the US gets a libertarian President someday, he just might tell the folks at CATO to

Come And Take Over

Coalition Against Taking Otherpeoplesmoney

shouldn’t that be if Cato were CATO?

Crane And The Others

What if Belle were not pedantic?

Coalition Against Tyranny and Oppression.

If I were a member of the LP, it would be ” Crane’s Arguments Topped Ours. “

Some confused guy once tried to sell me on the idea that it originally was an acronym and that all this stuff about inspiration from classical orators or early American revolutionaries was a bunch of revisionist hokum.

The old guy said that CATO was previously based in San Francisco–the heart of American fascism–and the moniker stood for

California Anti-Tax Organization

I know that it’s not an acronym and I still write it in all caps. Not sure why, maybe the size of the word lends itself to caps.

Hey man – Here’s a few Will…

Can Anyone Top Objectivism!?
the Commandingheights Are Totally Okay!
Collectivism Ain’t That Oldschool (yo)
Couldn’t Anyone TiVo O’Reilly!?
Creating Another Tax Obstacle
Career Analysts Toggling Opportunities
Colloquia Argue Towards Overregulation
Captivating Audiences, Tompalmer Overbroadband
Cutting Anyandall Top-down Oversight
‘C’ Ayn’s Tendentious Objectivism
Capitalism, Afterall This, Opensource?
Clinton’s America: Taxation, Oralsex
Collectiing Accretions to the Taxcode Obsessively
Cuz All the other Thinktanks are just Obsequious/Obsolescent
Combating Agrarianism Through Overintellectualization
Canada Ain’t That Orange (see ‘Spiral Dynamics’)
Cunning Analytical Top-Notch Awesome!
Can’t Anyone Try and Agree?
CBGB-AQAL-TOC-OEM
Calculating America’s Tonnage/Oppression
the Conservatives Aren’t Thusfar Onto-us
Corporate America, Tipsjar’s Open
Collective Administration of Torpor Antidotes
Charting America’s Troubling Originality
Cannabis Ain’t-no-thang, Towit: Amsterdam
Contemporary Alienation, Tomorrow’s Opportunity
Calling All Tyrants, Oppressors
Clerics Ambassadors Tyrants Oligarchs (hey!)
Team America, Coitus Onscreen! (oops, that’s TACO! Fuck yeah!)

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*Fly Bottle readers, feel free to anything from the Spare Word Pile (these guys didn’t find acronymic partners:(

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