Ep. 458 May a Libertarian Take Money from the State?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Walter Block joins us to ask a question a lot of scrupulous libertarians have wondered about: may a libertarian take government money, or hold a job involving government contracts, and the like, while being morally and philosophically consistent?
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 458. |
| 0:03.8 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.6 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:29.7 | slash social. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Just about to head out for the Young Americans |
| 0:36.5 | for Liberty National Convention this weekend. |
| 0:38.6 | I'll be speaking tomorrow, August 1st, which, by the way, is my birthday. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm going to be years old. |
| 0:46.0 | And I'm going to enjoy myself in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:49.5 | Can you believe I'm actually saying those words? |
| 0:51.2 | But I always do when I'm with the good folks at Young Americans for Liberty. But, of course, there's an episode for you anyway, and it's a dozy. |
| 1:00.5 | We've got Walter Block here to talk to us about the subject I mentioned at the end of yesterday's |
| 1:05.0 | episode. Can libertarians accept government money? Can they work for the government and so on and so forth? |
| 1:11.6 | I want to get into this question because it comes up a lot. I get a lot of emails from people who |
| 1:16.9 | are morally conflicted. Should I accept this job? There's some government money involved, or should I |
| 1:22.1 | be a professor at this university that gets government money. And Walter has written on this subject. |
| 1:27.8 | We will link to that on the show notes page, |
| 1:30.0 | tomwoods.com slash 458. |
| 1:32.4 | Now, who is Walter Block? |
| 1:33.8 | Most of you listening will know who Walter is, |
| 1:37.0 | but not everybody, perhaps. |
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