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Freedom Does Not Mean Appointing New Taskmasters

Keith Preston

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]

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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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