The Progress of Liberty

Today, we have an excellent article for reading and promoting: “My Uninvited Speech at KOCE-TV’s 35^th Anniversary Bash” by Dr. Tibor R. Machan.

This article is particularly good at making a distinction between the purposes to which public funds are put and the means by which they are obtained. It is possible for public programs – including public radio and public television – to offer genuinely valuable services. However, this still does not justify the coercive means by which funding for these programs is obtained. If the services they offer are indeed valuable and important, then it should be possible to convince people to support these services of their own free will.

By acknowledging whatever is valuable about these services, the free-market activist might gain the ear of their supporters and portray himself not as trying to shut them down, but simply trying to make an already somewhat good thing even better by removing any possibility for it to be objected to on the grounds of being coercively funded.

Sincerely,
Gennady Stolyarov II

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