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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 876 The Inequality Hucksters

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Inequality is the battering ram the left is using these days to justify all kinds of programs of intervention. In this episode we drive a stake through its heart.

Show notes for Ep. 876

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 876.

0:03.7

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.3

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.4

If you have problems in your life that can't be solved by free libertarian e-books,

0:19.4

then I don't know what to tell you, but I've got a bunch of

0:21.5

them on topics like, how would we have education without the state, or all the ways Bernie Sanders

0:27.3

is wrong, or really hard questions for libertarians and really good answers. Check them all out at

0:33.7

tom's freebooks.com. Hi everybody. We're talking about inequality today, and I know you may be saying

0:39.3

Woods, you have covered inequality in the past. Enough is enough, man. But, you know, there are all kinds of

0:46.3

angles you can view this problem from. And my guest today believes this really is the most important

0:52.9

issue for libertarians to deal with right now because so many

0:56.4

people are getting it wrong and so many people are drawing such dreadful conclusions from the

1:01.2

things they're getting wrong that we've got to correct the record and say sensible things.

1:06.3

And that guest is Leon Lowe, who is executive director and co-founder of the South Africa-based Free Market Foundation, which you can visit at freemarketfoundation.com.

1:19.7

Leon Lowe, by the way, his last name is spelled L-O-U-W, if you were trying to Google him.

1:26.2

Very interesting guy.

1:27.4

He's been doing some important work on this subject, and I'm delighted to welcome him to the show. Leon, thanks for being here.

1:33.2

Tom, it's my pleasure to be with you from the southern tip of Africa, no longer darkest Africa.

1:39.0

Right. We're going to have to talk a bit about that toward the end. I want to talk about inequality, but how could I not talk to you about South Africa, given that that's where you're broadcasting from? So

1:47.3

let's get to that a little bit later. Right now, you have been speaking and writing on the

1:51.9

subject of inequality. I've hit that subject a number of times on the show, but I've heard

1:55.8

you speak on it recently, thanks to the miracle of the internet, And I'm interested in your perspective. You've

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