Someone explain how coercive centralized bureaucratic control of medical decision-making and the purse can beat the decentralized free market with its undistorted price system. The government has many things besides medical care it wants to spend tax money on, and...
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Time to Separate Medicine and State
The "progressive" coverage of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder has an unspoken premise: namely, that we could have had a system in which medical care was instantly superabundant and free for everyone. There is no such system. We live in a world of...
Socialized Medicine Ain’t Freedom
The emergence of a pro-Enlightenment, pro-reason, anti-woke left, with its eloquent declarations in favor of freedom, is welcome indeed. But this political force still has some way to go. It is disappointing to hear the same people who effectively and properly debunk...
Episode 400: Dr Ron Paul On Growing Tyranny
35 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Pete invited Dr Ron Paul to return to the show to talk about the federal government's massive expansion due to the CoronaVirus. Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Ron Paul Liberty Report Link to Richard Grove's Autonomy Course...
Episode 215: The Myth of ‘Swedish Socialism’ w/ Per Bylund
41 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Per Bylund, PhD, is a Fellow of the Mises Institute and Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship & Records-Johnston Professor of Free Enterprise in the School of Entrepreneurship in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State...
Episode 156: Tim Moen is THAT Libertarian…and we need more like him!
55 Minures Mance welcomes Tim Moen to the show. Tim is the leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada and he is a "pull no punches" kind of guy. Unlike what the American LP has seen of its leadership recently, Tim is not scared to say the things that need to be said...
Under Socialized Medicine, The State Owns You
As Americans were spending time scrambling to give the IRS their annual protection fee, the court system in the United Kingdom, at the behest of National Health Service bureaucrats, abducted and murdered an 8-month-old baby. This brazen abduction was done in broad...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
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Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...