Episode 186 Why the New Deal Administrative State Must Be Abolished Not Reformed

Summary: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy promise to vastly reduce government inefficiency in the administrative state. But the problem isn’t just that there are too many bureaucrats doing a poor job. It’s that the entire idea of regulation as performed by those agencies is antithetical to America’s most basic principles. People have a right to buy and sell food and drugs the government doesn’t deem safe, pay and earn wages the government thinks are too low, and do virtually everything else the administrative state sets out to prohibit. And regulation has always been a tool of the largest corporations to eliminate lower cost competitors. Links: Progressivism Has Always Been Authoritarian, Anti-Democratic, and Reactionary Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From?: And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? Part One Conceived in Liberty Volumes 1-4 (audiobook) Free Gifts from Tom: Download a free copy of Tom's e-book, It’s the Fed, Stupid, at itsthefedstupid.com. It’s also available in paperback here. It’s priced at a pre-hyperinflation level so grab a few copies for friends if you can. Learn more about the philosophical differences between conservatives, liberals, and the founding fathers in Tom’s 2015 book, Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? Check out Tom’s new podcast, Tom Mullen Talks Movies! Like the music on Tom Mullen Talks Freedom? You can hear more at tommullensings.com!