Almost everyone, wrote Murray Rothbard, regardless of ideology, agrees that there is something terribly wrong with the accelerating, runaway welfare system in the United States, a system in which an ever-increasing proportion of the population lives as idle, compulsory claimants on the production of the rest of society.
In this week’s chapter of the For a New Liberty audiobook:
- Why the Welfare Crisis?
- Burdens and Subsidies of the Welfare State
- What Can Government Do?
- and even Milton Friedman’s Negative Income Tax
Chapter 8 of For a New Liberty is now available for podcast or download.
Next week:
Chapter 9, “Inflation and the Business Cycle” …
(And if you don’t want to wait for the free audio, you can always purchase the new, hardbound edition of Rothbard’s manifesto here.)
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