Ep. 43 The Not So Wild West
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2013
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Dr. P.J. Hill, co-author of The Not So Wild, Wild West, tells the true -- and libertarian -- story of the old West.
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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 be afraid of you, 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. |
| 0:52.0 | The Tom Woods show welcome everybody it is |
| 0:59.9 | Wednesday November 20th 2013 and today as promised we're talking about the |
| 1:06.9 | old west man have we heard all kinds of stories about this, right? Of course the Old West must |
| 1:14.6 | have been a violent place. Of course it must have been a place where life and property were |
| 1:20.7 | insecure. It must have been because there was little to no government there. We all know that |
| 1:26.1 | the guarantor of civilized life is the |
| 1:29.5 | government. And yet, according to our guest, the truth is exactly the opposite. That in fact, |
| 1:39.1 | there was far less violence in the Old West than we thought. And in fact, people figured out ways to establish |
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