Walter E Williams - Free Market Hostility

[@cristoballs]

"when people find that they can vote themselves money, that will be the end of the republic." so true... so very, very true.

[@Brythemagicguy1]

omg...i just found this guy and hes fucking brilliant

[@bluefootedpig]

@cristoballs not sure who said that, but I believe it was Plato, or at least I know it was said about roman government. That goes like, "once the people realize they can vote themselves money from the coffers, that is the end of democracy", and there are variations to it too. "once politicians realize they can vote themselves a pay raise, democracy is over"

[@playlacrosse24]

i would love to know where you get this clips!!! :DD

[@SmokeRingsPipeDreams]

Wise words.

[@johnwiseman17]

@wohs145 Isn't Walter Williams the Head of the Economics Department at American University?

[@midwestcharm]

"Wea are over-taxed and over-regulated, the Founding Fathers would be ashamed of us for what we're putting up with" - Ron Paul

[@stealthswimmer]

@wohs145 I think liberty is only popular by rhetoric, but it's also the case that different people have different views of what liberty is. Mostly though, I think most folks are easily scared into abandoning liberty...and my interpretation of that is that liberty really isn't that popular, unfortunately

[@Hashishin13]

Walter Williams is a gem, without a token black guy the liberty movement would look suspicious, luckily for us we also got a genius.

[@unfad1ng]

@Huboons But there has to be leaders, to lead companies for example, however the power of those leaders has to be limited so that they cannot force anything on you

[@panpiper]

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years." - Alexis de Tocqueville

[@EGarrett01]

@Panpiper The only ray of hope we have is that people will also vote for the politician who promises lower taxes.

[@groam6666]

Although I agree with him. Let's be careful and not think all conservatives are the same. We are still talking about politicians. Let's not make every American conservative an enemy by being snobby and thinking our ideas are above them. I'm just saying that those kind of thoughts often detract people from the libertarian position.

[@M3Besh]

Coming from the person who clings to his prejudices and rejects principal.

[@Cornampoo]

@adulby not so much of a coincidence, actually. ;)

[@gdmk1000]

A prophecy.

[@cristoballs]

@momerath42 ah yes... that's what happens when i write something down from memory, without checking. thanks:-)

[@sonnybrown4758]

Church!

[@mites7]

@rross27 Please, I implore you not to liken Bolshevism with Judaism, the two are totally polar opposites. The USSR oppressed Jews who wished to practice their faith relentlessly because they didnt fit into the communist mold. Some of the most prominent speakers for Libertarianism, Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman were both ethnically Jewish, and Peter Schiff is as well. He's obviously more minor. I hate nothing more than the fact that so many American Jews are leftists, it's sad.

[@jeronimotamayolopera4834]

HAHA; EXCELLENT.

[@panpiper]

@jrsub3 And then even more government ultimately destroyed that empire.

[@momerath42]

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