Ep. 632 On the Front Lines Against Bernie-mania

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 4 April 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Ethan Allen Institute promotes free markets in -- wait for it! -- Vermont, where the ideas of Senator Bernie Sanders have affected the political culture of the entire state. We get some insights into Bernie and into promoting free-market ideas in hostile territory.

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1:10.7	Hi everybody. Tom Woods here. We're talking to Rob Roper today, who is the president of the
1:15.7	Ethan Allen Institute, which is described as Vermont's free market public policy research
1:21.2	and education organization. And I thought this will be an interesting guy to talk to because
1:26.3	it must be rather an uphill battle to be fighting for these principles in Vermont. And I thought this will be an interesting guy to talk to because it must be rather an uphill battle to be fighting for these principles in Vermont.
1:31.2	And I thought we might also be able to get a little insight into Bernie Sanders while we're at it.
1:35.8	So I'm really glad to welcome him to the show. Rob, thanks for being here.
1:38.8	Well, thank you very much for having me on. It's a privilege and a pleasure. You know, as I was telling you before, somebody just wrote to me out of the blue and said, you should talk to somebody from the Ethan Allen Institute in Vermont. It's a free market think tank in Vermont. And I knew nothing about it. I never clicked on the link. I just said, a free market institute in Vermont, we're doing it. And then I looked at it, but I thought, surely this has to be done.
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