The Tom Woods Show, episode 931.

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

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

Folks, we are inching toward the 1,000th episode of the Tom Woods Show, and I'd like you to join me for it at a special event

in Orlando, September 9th, featuring Michael Malice and Tom DeLorenzo as special guests,

and the great Eric July as MC. It's absolutely free, but you got to register. Check it out at

Tom Woods.com slash Orlando. Hello, everybody. got to register. Check it out at tomwoods.com slash Orlando.

Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here. I'm sharing with you today an uncharacteristically short

lesson from my, at least it's drawn from one of the lessons from one of my Ron Paul curriculum courses.

This is from the government course that I created for that program. Of course, you can join that program at Ronpaulhomeschool.com. If you use my link,

you get $160 worth of free bonuses you don't get otherwise. So you should, of course, use my link.

But how to get just this one course, all that information will be up at tomwoods.com slash 931.

But the topic today, even though the coverage is brief, it's still one of these things that

makes light bulbs turn on in your mind because we all know that we're supposed to believe

that taxes or contributions and contracts can be entered into without realizing

it, in other words, the social contract. There are all kinds of perfectly good and noble ideas

that the state perverts through its abnormal use of language. Well, the point of what is about

to come here is that the idea of representation is yet another concept that the state has completely corrupted.

It turns out that it's totally meaningless conceptually to say that so-and-so represents me in government.

And I'm going to show you why in what follows.

So it's worse than you thought.

More things have been corrupted than you thought. This one's going to be so obvious when you hear it, you'll think, yeah, why didn't I put that together in my mind before? So here we go.

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