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Freedom Does Not Mean Appointing New Taskmasters

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2024
The basic immorality involved in coercion of men soon corrupts not only the wielder of such power, but those over whom the power is wielded.
–  George C. Roche III,
Free Markets, Free Men: Frederic Bastiat, 1801-1850 [1993]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
November 19, 2024
Freedom Does Not Mean Appointing New Taskmasters
Some libertarians are over-excited about Republican Donald Trump’s appointments of two liberal Democrats-turned-Trumpsters to his cabinet: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Tulsi Gabbard as …
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