Living Outside the Statist Quo

06/16/2010 Jeffrey A. Tucker

The state makes a mess of everything it touches. Examples from the book include how and why the "hot" water in our homes became lukewarm and what can be done about it, and how traffic laws became a racket for extracting wealth from the population, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker.

This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.

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