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🗓️ 25 April 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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I take on more criticisms of libertarianism -- less common but still important, and very interesting: (1) don't we need government-created deposit insurance so people don't lose a fortune if their money is in a bank that fails? and (2) should "insider trading" be allowed?
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0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1392. |
0:03.5 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
0:14.3 | Folks, I don't know about you, but I am running into a lot of progressive saying, |
0:18.1 | look, police, fire, schools, these are all great examples of socialism. |
0:22.9 | Well, let's focus on that school example. I've got a free e-book called Education Without the |
0:27.8 | state that makes a pretty darn good case for a stateless approach to education. Pick it up at |
0:34.3 | no-stateeducation.com. Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. I'm picking up where we left off, more or less, a couple of episodes ago, 1390. |
0:44.6 | Kevin Goodsman and I looked at just a handful of a very lengthy series of anti-libertarian tweets by a Terry Canfield. |
0:53.7 | And we talked about who she is. That doesn't really |
0:56.9 | matter because the point is not her. The point is the ideas she's putting forward. She had a |
1:03.3 | series of tweets some time ago, I think it was about 29 of them. And she was trying to show the |
1:10.6 | undesirability of libertarianism for one reason or another. |
1:14.0 | And most of the arguments she made are pretty standard. These are arguments that we've answered |
1:19.7 | quite a few times. But she has not read any real libertarian. She's read David Bowes. She didn't |
1:26.3 | like him. But that seems to be about it. |
1:29.3 | She thought that his presentation of American history shared a little bit too much in common |
1:33.9 | with white supremacists. I just, I don't understand how somebody could be that much of an emotional |
1:40.3 | hypochondriac to read a book like that and draw that kind of conclusion, but |
1:45.8 | unfortunately we're surrounded by such people. So anyway, the point is not to go after her as a |
1:51.5 | person, plus that's no point in doing that, but rather that when critics like this raise |
1:56.9 | issues like this, it's an opportune moment for us to go back and review. What do we think about |
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