Ep. 23 The Recycling Racket
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Floy Lilley explains why compulsory recycling makes no sense.
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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, that. |
| 0:28.3 | Prepare to unshackle your mind. |
| 0:31.2 | 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. |
| 0:52.0 | The Tom Woods show. |
| 0:58.7 | And welcome everybody on this Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013. Tom Woods here, talking recycling today. |
| 1:05.5 | Now, I realize this is not the most pressing issue in the history of mankind, but it is the sort of classic example of a |
| 1:13.1 | government program that is supported by propaganda alone, that your kids are propagandized |
| 1:19.6 | into believing and they come home and lecture you for not recycling. An enormous amount of money |
| 1:24.5 | is spent on it by cities all over the country, and what does it have to show for itself? |
| 1:28.5 | Does it make any sense whatsoever? |
| 1:30.5 | So we're going to talk about this once, and then we'll never have to mention it again, but we're going to have a good time doing it. |
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