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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 32 The World's Happiest Country?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Aarhus University's Christian Bj�rnskov joins Tom to discuss the true story of Denmark..

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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 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.

0:52.0

The Tom Woods show.

0:58.0

Welcome, everybody. It's Tuesday, November 5th, 2013. Tom Woods here, we're going to do some more

1:04.0

myth-busting for you today. Today we have another international topic. Now, you'll notice

1:10.0

that so far we've covered Somalia and Sweden in terms of other countries.

1:15.6

Because Americans, particularly Americans of a particular political persuasion, always like to pick some country somewhere else in the world and say, look, this country has a huge government sector, and it's doing great. So quit worrying

1:30.6

and quit grousing. It'll be great if our overlords have more power over us, right? Wouldn't that be

1:36.8

great? Look at how great it is for these other countries. So, or conversely, in the case of Somalia,

1:41.9

look how terrible it is. There aren't enough overlords there. They need more overlords. So what I want to do is give you guys the response to these situations. You're going to get these thrown in your faces. So we covered Sweden, and if you missed that program, go to the archive at tomwoodsradio.com or subscribe on iTunes or on Stitcher and scroll back and find that program.

2:03.5

And I also put up a resource page for when you are in this situation of a bunch of articles

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