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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 308 Nullification: The Gateway Drug

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2014

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The Free State Project

Book

Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century

Resource Mentioned

NullificationFAQ.com

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0:00.0

In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits.

0:05.2

Now's not that time.

0:06.4

And Republicans.

0:07.9

I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

0:12.2

You need a voice of liberty.

0:15.1

Look no further.

0:16.7

You've found it.

0:18.4

Tom Woods.

0:21.2

Beware, citizen.

0:22.9

You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.

0:26.9

The Tom Woods Show.

0:33.8

Welcome, everybody, to the Tom Woods Show, episode 308. In this episode, I reproduce for you, a talk I gave at the Free State Projects Liberty Forum back in early 2013. They asked me to talk about state nullification, so I did so, but with a twist, I explained how state nullification can be a gateway drug.

0:57.5

Now, I know on yesterday's episode, 307, we just got done telling you there is no such thing as a gateway drug.

1:03.3

The whole thing's a myth, but in this case, state nullification can be a gateway drug because you can appeal to traditional conservatives who believe, supposed

1:12.8

to believe anyway, in federalism and local control and all that. But there's so much that

1:18.7

the idea of nullification teaches you that you wind up getting swept up and you wind up

1:25.0

getting pushed closer to us ideologically. And that's what I'm aiming to do.

1:32.2

Show notes for this episode, of course, are at tomwoods.com slash 308.

1:36.9

In this talk, I refer to a video and I say, hey, if you want to watch this video, it's right

1:41.2

there on the homepage of my website.

1:42.8

Well, this, that was like

1:44.4

two website designs ago. It's not on the website anymore, but it is on the show notes page at

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