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'm feel free 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 Tuesday, February 11,

2014. Public goods are often cited to justify government intervention. You'll see this

economic concept in your introductory economics course and in every economics textbook.

But does it in fact justify government intervention?

We're going to look at that question today with Professor Fred Folvery, author of Public Goods and Private Communities,

The Market Provision of Social Services.

But before we get to Fred, a couple of quick notes here,

do you believe that next week, I can't believe this, next week, a week from today,

is our 100th show? I cannot believe I've done 100 shows already. Where'd the time go?

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