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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 134 The 'Equal Pay Day' Scam

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2014

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On Equal Pay Day, Mark Perry of the University of Michigan and the American Enterprise Institute gives the real scoop about the male-female pay gap..

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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.

0:16.4

Daddy, what do taxes pay for?

0:18.2

Oh, why everything?

0:19.7

Policemen, trees, sunshine.

0:21.9

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'm going to unshackle your mind.

0:31.2

An idea who his time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.

0:36.9

Your professor has arrived.

0:41.0

Tom Woods.

0:42.3

Well, his mind is not for rent to any government.

0:46.9

Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.

0:52.3

The Tom Woods Show. And welcome, everybody. It's Tuesday, April 8th, 2014.

1:00.7

It's Equal Pay Day. Did you know it's Equal Pay Day? I bet you didn't. Every year, the National

1:06.7

Committee on Pay Equity publicizes Equal Pay Day, and that's April 8th today.

1:13.1

The idea is that this is how far into 2014 the average woman will have to keep working

1:18.9

to earn the same income that the average man earned last year.

1:23.0

And the idea is that women working full-time are earning only 77% of what men working full-time are

1:31.3

earning, and this, therefore, is evidence of discrimination against women. Is that really what

1:38.3

it's evidence of, and is that a real statistic? There's something funny about this, right? You can't

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