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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1331 Do We Need the State for the Sake of the Vulnerable?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In one of my Twitter exchanges, I came across a fellow who thought the vulnerable would be worse off under libertarianism, since they'd be less likely to have access to education, etc. Since a lot of people think this way, I thought I'd address issues like this in this episode.

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Show notes for Ep. 1331

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1331.

0:03.4

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.0

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.2

Folks, you are unjustly depriving yourselves of a wonderful pleasure if you enjoy the Tom

0:19.4

Wood Show, but have not yet read my book

0:21.7

Real Descent, a libertarian sets fire to the index card of allowable opinion. You can get the

0:27.6

audiobook version with me narrating it for free through the audible offer at tomwoodsaudio.com.

0:35.1

Hello everybody, Tom Woods here. The funny thing happened just this morning. I checked the

0:40.5

private group we have for the people going on the Contra Cruise this year, and somebody posted

0:46.4

that she was thinking of maybe not going this year. You know, maybe she'd go in the future, but not

0:53.4

this particular year, even though she's gone with us in the future, but not this particular year, even though she's

0:55.7

gone with us in the past. But she said there was a particularly good Tom Wood Show episode. I think

1:01.0

she's referring to the last one, number 1330, and she just said, oh, what the heck we're going to go.

1:07.9

So that's the spirit. So remember, I, along with Bob Murphy, host a cruise.

1:13.1

We're doing our fourth one this year in July 2019. We're going to Alaska. And if you think that

1:19.6

isn't going to be an amazing time with awesome people, you don't know nothing about the Contra Cruise.

1:25.1

It is an extraordinary event. We have a blast doing all kinds of

1:29.0

fun things. You get to meet wonderful people. Hang out with Bob Murphy and me. If you consider

1:33.7

that to be a plus, then that's definitely one of the things that you will be doing. Gene Epstein

1:38.5

will be moderating a debate between Bob and me on a serious issue. It has nothing to do with

1:43.9

economics and has nothing to do with economics and has

1:44.8

nothing to do with religion. But there is an issue, a serious one. This isn't a joke like

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