Ep. 186 Human Scale
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Taylor, author of Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition of Decentralism, fills in some holes in the standard tale of U.S. history.
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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? |
| 0:18.3 | 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'll be afraid. |
| 0:28.3 | Prepare 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. |
| 0:42.5 | Well, his mind is not for rent to any government. |
| 0:47.1 | Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:52.3 | The Tom Woods Show. Welcome, everybody. It's Wednesday, June 25th, |
| 0:59.4 | 2014, and decentralism is our subject for today with Jeff Taylor, Professor of Political |
| 1:07.4 | Science at Dort College in Iowa. His book is Politics on a Human Scale, |
| 1:13.4 | The American Tradition of Decentralism. Jeff is eclectic in his views to the point that I just find him |
| 1:21.0 | interesting in and of himself, quite apart from his very important and quite long book, by the way. |
| 1:27.2 | This could be used as a murder |
| 1:28.2 | weapon. All right now, never mind that. Let's turn right now to Jeff Taylor. Jeff, welcome to the |
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