The Tom Woods Show, episode 2015.

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The Tom Woods Show.

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.

Join today by Tom Mullin, whom I've known for quite a while in this Liberty movement.

We haven't spoken in a while, but he has a brand new book I want to talk to him about.

Short book you can read quickly, but full of insights and interesting points that I endorse

fully. It's an anti-state Christmas. I'm linking to it at tomwoods.com slash 2015. Tom, welcome back.

Thanks Tom, great to be here. You have a lot of different things in here and I am as annoyed as you are

by a Christmas Carol and it's a wonderful life. Now normally, let me just say something in

defense of myself here. Normally, I can shut off the inner libertarian while I'm watching a movie

or reading a book or whatever. I can do that. I am capable of that. I'm capable of interacting

with other human beings without constantly reminding them of the non-aggressive principle. Yes.

However, there are some things I find so irritating that it's just impossible for me to do that.

And so you actually inadvertently touched on two of them as a matter of fact. But before we get to

those, I want to add one more item that we could also think about in terms of an anti-status or

Christmas. And that has to do with, now I don't offhand, I'm sorry, I could look them up. But I've

seen economists, mainstream so-called economists argue that Christmas is inefficient. It's inefficient

because if you had $20 to go spend, you probably wouldn't spend it on the $20 gift that some person

gave you. So you see, this is inefficient. Now, I consider this to be so ridiculous and

anti-human as almost not to be worth replying to. Have you ever heard the Christmas is inefficient

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