Ep. 100 Are There Good Arguments for the State?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2014
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Michael Huemer, professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, discusses his book The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey.
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| 0:00.0 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:09.9 | In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:14.9 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:16.5 | Daddy, what do taxes pay for? |
| 0:18.3 | Oh, why everything? |
| 0:19.7 | Policemen, trees, sunshine. |
| 0:21.9 | And let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them. |
| 0:25.9 | Don't be afraid. |
| 0:26.7 | I'll be afraid of you, dad. |
| 0:28.3 | Prepare to unshackle your mind. |
| 0:31.3 | An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government. |
| 0:36.9 | Your professor has arrived. |
| 0:41.1 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:46.8 | Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:52.0 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:56.0 | Welcome, everybody. It is Wednesday, February 19th, 2014. Thanks for listening to the Tom |
| 1:01.6 | Wood's show, which is the number one rated libertarian podcast on iTunes. Thanks to you listeners. |
| 1:08.3 | Today we are talking to Dr. Michael Humor, |
| 1:11.3 | Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. |
| 1:15.2 | Professor Humor holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy |
| 1:17.3 | from the University of California at Berkeley, |
| 1:19.7 | his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. |
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