VIDEO: Tom Woods on Secession: The Reasonable Option Everyone Resists

01/30/2015 Mises Wire Mises Institute

Recorded at “Breaking Away: The Case for Secession”—the Mises Circle in Houston, Texas, on 24 January 2015.

“And yet what is secession? When we talk about secession, we are saying that this political line should be drawn here instead of here. Wow. What a terrifying proposition that we might want to propose such a thing as that.”

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