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Another point -- I am tired of people on this board who obviously know very little about history criticizing Rothbard's vast knowledge of history. Rothbard knew more about history than most historians. Anyone who possesses some knowledge of American history will realize the incredible breadth of Rothbard's knowledge in this area. I would encourage
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I honestly don't understand the logic behind Friedman's rebuttal. It is plainly factual that government grew tremendously under Ronald Reagan, even if not adjusted for the rate of inflation. Everybody knows this. Rothbard is not pointing out some startling new fact. What government programs did Reagan abolish? None. What regulations did he remove
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I agree with everything all the repliers have posted. I would also add that in the latter half of the nineteenth century, Standard Oil grew to such bloated size because it was protected from foreign competition by extremely high tariffs implemented by the Republican Party. As accepted at the time, these tariffs created the massive trusts. Rather than
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The U.S. finally recovered from the Great Depression not because of WW II, as is commonly asserted, but because of the end of WW II. Although WW II solved the unemployment problem as a result of the draft and wage controls, depression conditions persisted until 1946, when government drastically cut spending. The draft solved unemployment by sending
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It is utterly unconstitutional. End of story. If the mandate is constitutional, then anything is. Of course, according to government today, everything is constitutional. If the government can force you to buy a certain product, then what can it not do? Obama's nonsensical argument was that most states force people to buy car insurance, so what's
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So you believe Pol Pot? Pol Pot's second-in-command, who still lives in Cambodia, admitted to killing scores of people, though "only the bad people." Pol Pot was a very bad guy who directly ordered scores of murders. When some electricians did a poor job of wiring his home, for example, he ordered their execution. He also imposed a brutal
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Here's a teaching suggestion for getting students to think about liberty. I am an English teacher, and I require my students to argue for the abolition of a law or government agency of their choice. (Even the most statist person opposes some laws.) A certain number of their sources must come from the Mises Institute, lewrockwell.com, or other libertarian
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Yes, Rothbard, Mises, and Block are notorious such tip-toers, aren't they! On Rothbard's view on Israel, see the following 1982 issue of The Libertarian Forum : http://mises.org/journals/lf/1982/1982_07.pdf
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Eugene, Churchill was a good guy??? So far as which one to live under, Churchill imposed wartime socialism and fascism on Britain, thus making it easy for the subsequent Labour regime to institutionalize socialism in Britain. Also, Churchill's bellicosity repeatedly prevented the peace agreement between Germany and Britain that Hitler desperately
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Bravo, John! Of course, a true libertarian schooled in the Austrian tradition would be a tremendous step forward in the path to a free society. Yes, the establishment would do everything in its power to discredit a President Paul, but at least for once, the ideas would be out there. The names Rothbard and Mises would be spread. The libertarian movement