Yaron Brook at Tea Party Patriots Summit

Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights gives a stirring speech at the Tea Party Patriots Summit. Yaron identifies the crucial principles at the heart of any restoration of American Liberty.

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[r74quinn]

@JackVykios The state doesn't "provide" things, it only takes things from one person and gives them to someone else. That is not a recipe for a "well fed and medically cared for populace".

[DenmarkRadar]

@JackVykios

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Remember that very few rich people hide all of their money under their mattress or in their personal vault.

They invest most of their wealth to generate a return, thus creating real and productive jobs for the unemployed. In all likelihood that's how they became rich in the first place. The only other way to become rich is inheritance.

[shonstar]

@TaniaGroth too much pacing, agreed, but I do the same thing when I get heated

[shonstar]

This is excellent. I wish Brook was always like this.

[dubtafoo]

He said that government must defend your right to life, liberty, and happiness. But why isn't health care the same thing as defending your from foreign invasion? Surely if the government can tax you to protect you from war, what if the agent of war is viruses and bacteria? Why mustn't the government protect you from infectious disease? Government should provide everyone with tax rebates to choose their own healthcare provider. Ppl who don't get health care shld pay endangerment tax 4 risks 2 us.

[VonStierlitz]

@JackVykios

What constitutes as "basic needs" ? And why should the government put the "needs" of some over the liberty of others ? You can give any amount of money to the needy, if you feel like it. But the government should NOT force you, because doing so is a direct violation of YOUR individual rights. Every redistributionist tyrant claims to act in the name of the "general welfare", but they all do it at the expence of individual liberty of other people. It's a tyranny of someone's "need".

[TaniaGroth]

STOP MOVING!!!!! ARGGHHHHH

[barccy]

I don't think our republican elected oligarchy is any better than a democracy. The Majority of the oligarchy can, has, and does still steal your stuff and claims the right to control the individual. I'd prefer the majority of common people than the majority of a disconnected elite rule. What I actually want though is autonomy. Ⓐ

[DenmarkRadar]

@JackVykios

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Regarding the redistribution of wealth: Please look up "the broken window fallacy" on Wikipedia.

As redistribution is the quintessential broken window fallacy - you see that the poor receive money and pay their expenses (good) but you do not see the missing investments that would bring even greater wealth (bad) because those investments never happen since the money were taxed out of the investor's hands.

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[DenmarkRadar]

@JackVykios

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A bad state use force against its own citizens. For instance the current libyan dictator, who has upheld his regime since 1969 by jailing or shooting any that disagree with him.

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[DenmarkRadar]

@JackVykios

In my opinion the state should hold no prerogatives. The state is a construct (similar to a corporation) that individual humans agree to in order to better achieve their goals.

In a good state this is done (for example) through preventing/mitigating the use of force against the citizens, By way of an army, a police force and a juidicial system.

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