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State Lawmaker Taking Sledgehammer To Homeless People’s Shopping Carts (VIDEO)
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Privatize All The Things?
Reason.TV is out with a new video asking whether we should abolish government and privatize all social services. David Friedman (son of the late Milton Friedman) discusses Anarcho-Capitalism and how justice would be distributed in a free society. Is the job of government to produce laws that produce freedom? Or is that in essence the…
First Things First
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Glenn Beck draws a straight line from Anarcho-Capitalism over to Totalitarianism
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