The Tom Woods Show, episode 471.

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$10 gift card. Hey everybody, Tom Woods with Tom DeLorenzo today. Talking about government and

wage rates, but primarily about fringe benefits, why shouldn't the

government mandate X number of sick days and vacation days and family leave and so on? What could

be wrong with that? We're going to talk about that and labor unions and more today. Tom D. Lorenzo,

of course, is Professor of Economics at Loyola

University in Baltimore. He is the author of numerous books. I will link to several of them on

today's show notes page, Tom Woods.com slash 471. They include how capitalism saved America,

the real Lincoln, Lincoln unmasked, Hamilton's

curse, and organized crime, the unvarnished truth about government. Tom, welcome back to the show.

Please be with you, Tom. I'm doing a series of episodes in which I'm not necessarily

each time going to mention Bernie Sanders' name, but the types of ideas that he's putting forth are great episode topics because they need to be refuted.

I mean, we need to spend more money really developing wind power.

I mean, come on now, right?

But people do need to know what to say to that. And so I'm going to try and get to that in the coming week. So when I heard the Sanders proposal to give people, I guess it's 10 paid vacation days and seven sick days and 12 weeks of family leave, I thought Tom DeLorenzo is very good at stuff like

this. So that's the sort of proposal that strikes people as benign and very much welcome and could

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