The Tom Woods Show, episode 1434.

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Hi everybody. Tom Woods here. All right, let's see. Before we get started here, I want to make sure you listened to the last two episodes of the show.

If you didn't listen to those, I want you to stop this one and go back and listen to those. 1433, 1432.

The episode with Gary Chartier about his book on business ethics was just great.

That's such a great and important book, and it's so well done. You've got to listen to that one.

Then 1433 about this whole nonsense about the Russians. I mean, who believes these things?

The Russians influencing the 2008 Ron Paul presidential campaign. Could you imagine anybody influencing Ron Paul? Did you imagine that? I mean, Ronald Reagan couldn't twist the guy's

arm, try as he might. You think some creep spook from Russia? It's just ridiculous. So you've got

to listen to those because those are really good. Now, let me pause for a minute while you go do that.

All right, now you're back. Okay, good. You're ready for episode 1434. In today's episode, I'm going to talk about some themes raised in an article I just read from Nathan J. Robinson, who is the editor of current affairs. He has an article, article, Why Taxation is Neither Thief nor Slavery.

And I'm going to give you some, let's say, a few considerations

for your intellectual pleasure, let's say.

What I want to tell you about, though, in particular about this week,

is that this week, and I'm speaking to you now on June 24th, 2019, is the week of the

first Democratic presidential debates of the 2020 election cycle. And as you may know, they're

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