Like I was saying here and here…
It’s exactly the way Joseph Sobran puts it in the Liberty and Economics bio documentary of Mises:
“There’s a three word lexicon that explains the tax economy: ‘need, greed, and compassion.’ ‘Need’ now means wanting someone else’s money, ‘greed’ means wanting to keep your own, and ‘compassion’ is the sentiment of the politician who wants to arrange the transfer.”
Oh no, I didn’t mean it was a solution you’d bring up to her…I mean it’s a solution to making people who are this confused become a smaller and smaller percentage of the population.
As I was saying here, this mode of thinking is so ingrained, you can’t really expect the people who already think this way to to come around very far. In that thread I recounted a conversation with a grown man, who served in the Navy and has children of his own, about how people would be educated without government-run schools. He literally could not get it. He’s not retarded (or at least, I don’t think he is). But his question kept going back to “how the fuck do you expect private schools to provide education to every single child? There aren’t near enough private schools! How do you expect America to compete in an international marketplace without educating our children?”
No I don’t expect people like this Laura Gutleben to get reality. I’m just saying the way to prevent future Laura Gutlebens from being created is quite simple.
On that note, I honestly wonder if this is the same woman Tom Woods had his own online debate with. She sounds exactly the same:
(this is a really great lecture. Perfect for this type of person. He also references the best lecture I think he’s ever done, which is here.)
