Rothbard wrote this article in 1956 — pre-cable TV, pre-Internet and pre-personal computer. And yet it is as apt today as it ever was. Government cannot provide what the public wants at a price the public is willing to pay like the free market.
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A federal advisory panel approved a revised proposal that encourages states to use electronic voting machines that can be independently verified, a day after rejecting a similar recommendation
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