Ep. 21 The Short Case for the Free Market
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2013
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Tom describes how he would defend the free market to the world if he was given a half hour to do so.
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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. |
| 0:16.5 | Daddy, what do taxes pay for? |
| 0:18.3 | Oh, why everything? |
| 0:19.7 | Policemen, trees, sunshine. |
| 0:21.9 | And 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 feel free, dad. |
| 0:28.3 | Prepare to unshackle your mind. |
| 0:31.3 | An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government. |
| 0:36.9 | Your professor has arrived. |
| 0:41.1 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:46.8 | Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:52.3 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:59.1 | And welcome everybody on this Monday, October 21st, 2013. |
| 1:04.0 | Today I am out of the office. |
| 1:05.8 | I'm keynoting an event at which all the schoolteachers of the Archdiocese of Kansas City here in Kansas |
| 1:11.8 | will be in attendance, so it's an audience of 1,200 plus. |
| 1:15.8 | But I did not want to leave you orphans, you faithful listeners of the Tom Woods show. |
| 1:19.9 | So in my place, I am playing for you a talk you probably have not heard, about half an hour |
| 1:25.4 | long that I gave to some high school students describing to them what I would say to the world if I had its attention about half an hour long that I gave to some high school students |
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