Ep. 60 Against the State
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2013
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government, joins Tom for a wide-ranging discussion.Check out the full exposition of Dr. Higgs' position on World War II at this link.
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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. |
| 0:52.3 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:57.1 | Welcome, everybody. It is Monday, December 16th, 2013, and we are joined today by Robert |
| 1:04.8 | Higgs. And if you don't know who Bob Higgs is, well, this is your lucky day because you're |
| 1:09.1 | going to get exposed to one of the great libertarian scholars out there who's just an outstanding economist and historian and indeed economic historian by any standard, but who's made such important contributions in so many areas. I am just thrilled to have a chance to sit down and talk to him. Before we get to |
| 1:30.2 | him, very, very quick announcements, just a reminder, we're going to be taking a quick break |
| 1:35.0 | around Christmas time on this program. December 23rd, a week from today will be the last program |
| 1:40.4 | until 2014. We will resume on January 2nd. I'm going to take a little breather, be with |
| 1:46.6 | the family, and of course I'm also doing all this work for Ron Paul homeschool.com, which is |
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