Ep. 102 Empire Corrupts
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2014
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Bill Kauffman, one of Tom's favorite authors, talks about decentralism, localism, and how empire corrupts the soul. Check out Bill's article archive at The American Conservative, and take a look at his latest book, Bye Bye Miss American Empire: Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, and their Underdog Crusades to Redraw America's Political Map.
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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 feel free 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. |
| 0:52.3 | The Tom Woods Show. Welcome, everybody. It's Friday, February 21st, |
| 0:59.2 | 2014, and I'm telling you guys, you are in for such a treat today. I am so glad to be able to |
| 1:05.9 | welcome Bill Kaufman to the program, and if you have not read Bill Kaufman, well, better late than never, |
| 1:11.7 | I hardly know what to tell you guys in introducing Bill. There's nobody like him. There's |
| 1:16.5 | nobody who writes like him. There's no one who thinks quite like him. There's no one who |
| 1:21.3 | expresses himself the way Bill does. I don't really know what to say. Words fail me with Bill. |
| 1:26.8 | Every minute I can spend talking to |
| 1:29.3 | this guy is a minute I deeply cherish. I want to tell you, before I give you Bill's credentials |
| 1:36.3 | and what he's up to today, a little story. Back from 2008, Ron Paul was getting ready for his |
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