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

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

Now's not that time.

Daddy, what do taxes pay for?

Oh, why everything?

Policemen, trees, sunshine.

And let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them.

Don't be afraid.

I'll be afraid of you, dad.

Prepare to unshackle your mind.

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.

Your professor has arrived.

Tom Woods.

Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.

The Tom Woods Show welcome everybody it is

Thursday December 5th 2013 and today we are going to tackle an interesting

and important question and that is what did people do before the welfare state? Good question. What did they do before there was a

welfare state in the United States, particularly in the 20th century? What did people do to care for

themselves, to care for each other? It's a good question we hardly ever

get an answer, but today we're going to get an answer because we're going to be talking to

David Beto, who's the author of From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State, which is a study

precisely of what it is people did to care for each other in the age before the welfare

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