Introducing Reason's 2009 Webathon! Because Free Minds and Free Markets Aren't Free!

Free Minds and Free Markets Don't Come Free! http://reason.com/donate

For the next week, Reason mag Editor in Chief Matt Welch and Reason.com/Reason.tv Editor in Chief Nick Gillespie will be asking you to please help us keep Reason.com, Reason.tv, and Reason magazine going stronger than ever by giving a tax-deductible donation to Reason Foundation, the nonprofit publisher of the leading libertarian website, video site, and print publication in this and all other known galaxies. (Click on the image to hear Welch's eloquent spiel.)

If you give $100 (just $6.52 in 1935 dollars!), you'll get all kinds of swag, including a choice between a copy of Brian Doherty's great history of the libertarian movement, Radicals for Capitalism, and Peter Bagge's awesome collection of Reason comics, Everybody is Stupid Except For Me! And your name will appear (only if you want) in a cool banner on Reason.com, thanking you for your help.

The fight for for freedom has never been more important than now. Here we are, a decade into the 21st century, fer chrissakes, and 20 years after the beginning of the end of communism, and the U.S. government owns a car company, has taken over the financial sector, is about to squeeze out the market from health care, is fighting two bum wars, and on and on. Who could have thought it could worst apres Bush fils? (Plenty of Reason staffers, that's who!)

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[abarzilai664]

Wish you guys deliver outside the United States :(

[ReasonTV]

We do!

[Scottit]

The free market has not been operating in the US for a long time.

Government intervention continually messes up the economy.

Although the gov usually, mostly has good intentions, plus there is a lot pandering to certain voters, by taking from other voters.

Too many regs & requirements are part of the problem that gov creates.

[zswoopingdown]

Did anyone else notice Matt trying not to grin when he got to the part about "created or saved jobs"? :P

[Silvsilvchan]

Technically he is selling subscriptions.

I have no idea why they ran this video like a donation ad though...

[moronpaul]

This is nuts. Why is reasontv panhandling? Why not follow their mantra and SELL THINGS or RUN ADS to generate REVENUE to keep the site up?

HYPOCRITES

[ls1z28chris]

I allowed my subscription to lapse months ago, but continued to follow Reason online. Thanks largely to this video, I decided to defer my renewal no longer. This evening I re-subscribed to Reason.

You can at least be certain that this video got you $20. I look forward to receiving my journals.

[787Bisurdaddy]

You must be joking. Surely you don't think the cartelized media is a free market.

[ryanjurek]

What you're saying is, businesses that have to advertise their product to get people to buy it is... ironic?

[SteveAndIdiAmin]

Are you KIDDING me? Reason is a fringe publication precisely BECAUSE the free markets have spoken. So now you're begging for money like you're some kind of public service?

What the fuck?

[Scottit]

ssjpabs,

Did you get the title? "Free Markets Aren't Free"

The market did not speak.

If the market was free, there would not have been all those subprime loans & there would not have been a housing bubble, because housing supply would have been able to keep up with demand.

It was about 10 housing markets (urban areas) that reduced the wanted construction which pushed up prices through many restrictions (ie smart growth policies--big misnomer)

[Scottit]

demon,

For some reason, people don't like much to pay for education, let alone even read very often.

Thus, Reason & other research think-tanks need money.