• "Well written, well researched, and the thesis put forth is well argued.... Woods has opened up an area of historical analysis that should invite further study."
    -Journal of American History

  • "During these times that challenge our freedoms there is no one more qualified to make U.S. history relevant to the fight against big government than Thomas Woods."
    -Barry Goldwater Jr.
    Former Member of Congress

  • "I strongly recommend Woods's work."
    -The Honorable Ron Paul,
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • "Written with great clarity and fluency, making the complex philosophical and theological concepts approachable."
    -Journal of American Studies

  • "A must-read."
    -Barron's

  • "An excellent reading source for anyone interested in financial markets, and much more so for anyone interested in learning about capitalism without all the misinterpretations being thrown about in the financial media."
    -Asia Times

  • "Provocative, well-written, and deserves to be read."
    -Catholic Historical Review

  • "An engaging and important contribution to scholarship on the history of American Catholicism."
    -Journal of the Historical Society

  • "Woods and [co-author Kevin] Gutzman appeal to both left and right in this constitutionalist jeremiad…. The authors' exegeses of the Constitution and court decisions, heavy on original intent arguments, are lucid and telling."
    -Publishers Weekly

  • "A marvelous read. Every chapter taught me something new and unexpected."
    -Tom Bethell, senior editor,
    The American Spectator

  • "The hottest book today is Meltdown, by my friend Tom Woods."
    -Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst,
    FOX News Channel

  • "Should be required reading."
    -Economic Affairs (London)

  • "Woods, one of the best classical liberal [libertarian] scholars of his generation, has once more placed us in his debt with this lucid and tightly argued book."
    -David Gordon, The Mises Review

  • "Tom Woods is one of my dearest allies in the struggle against wrong-headed and dangerous economic policy."
    -Peter Schiff

Need Your Input: Top Ten Questions that Won’t Be Asked During the Debates

Over on my Facebook page I have a thread going in which I’m asking for suggestions. I welcome yours!

Unlearn the Propaganda!

  • Caleb

    Obama, why didn’t you ask Romney to be your running mate?
    Romney, why didn’t you ask Obama to be your running mate?

  • Luke Sunderland

    Governor Romney, in the 1980 Presidential debates, Ronald Reagan
    fought for independent candidate, and his former Republican primary
    rival, John Anderson to be included in the debates with President
    Carter. You claim to greatly admire President Reagan, so why have you not followed his example and
    pushed for Libertarian candidate, and your former Republican primary
    rival, Gary Johnson to be included in these debates?

  • http://www.facebook.com/benoravetz Ben Oravetz
  • vox

    Why won’t you admit to the American people that Social Security and Medicare are unfunded to the tune of 222 trillion dollars? Why won’t you admit these programs are going to default? Why don’t you say you will enforce our Constitution and allow the free exchange of gold and silver? Why don’t you say you will remove the capital gains “collectible” tax on gold and silver, which has always been money for thousands of years? Why won’t you admit that an increase in taxes will do nothing to avoid the default of the United States government? Why won’t you admit that free-trade is really managed trade ? Trade must not involve the third party of government in order to be free.

  • http://twitter.com/evmazu E Mazur

    The American government has completely adopted 3 planks of the Communist Manifesto: income tax, a central bank, and “free” public education. Which, if any, of these planks should be nullified?

  • Meach

    President Obama, if minimum wage laws were created specifically to keep Blacks and low income/skilled people from getting work, why do you still support increases?

  • Meach

    President Obama, if minimum wage laws were created specifically to keep Blacks and low income/skilled people from getting work, why do you still support increases?

  • Anonymous

    because Gary Johnson is a joke, we’re better off not having him embarass the libertarian philosophy infront of the entire country…

  • Anonymous

    Do you believe as willie does, that America has never lived up to the idea’s of the foundation…….and if you don’t agree with willie, how do you explain from the begining to today: slavery, goverment subsidies, stronger centralized goverment, disenfranchised native American’s, imperialism, voter discrimination, more goverment subsidies, executive orders by a President, eroding powers of the states, segregation in public places, production tax, the erosion of more civil liberties, more goverment subsidies, UNdelared wars, etc, etc, etc, etc………………..

  • Al

    Hopefully, I’m doing this right. Pertaining to asking our input on questions to the two candidates.

    Gov. Romney; Why do you feel that the economy is our number one problem and, not the lost of our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness brought about by excessive government?

  • J Cortez

    Questions that will never be asked in any 2012 debate:

    1. Can you explain what would happen, in economic terms, if the minimum wage was raised to $50 an hour?

    2. The constitution had a set of basic human rights, one of which being the right to due process regardless of nationality. Since this is a supposed feature of law, why do targeted drone strikes happen?

    3. A recent report stated that of all drone strikes, only 2% of the dead were actual terrorists; considering that brutal deaths of many innocent women and children are not spreading good will or furthering US strategic objectives, why do these strikes continue?

    4. “The constitution is meaningless; If it wasn’t then the TSA wouldn’t exist.” Do you disagree with the statement and if you do why?

    5. Do you agree or disagree with the principle of voluntary association/disassocation?

    6. If you answered yes to the previous question, do you agree that the southern states were within their “rights” to secede just before the Second War of Secession?

    7. According to campaign funding reports, much of your funding comes from large Wall Street firms; If someone said that you are both beholden to their interests, would you consider it a character attack, and if so, would it also be incorrect to say that most politicians/lobbyists/regulators that are beholden?

    8. Since 1995, the value of the dollar has declined 30%; since 1913 it’s declined 96%; With QE3 now underway by the Fed, can you explain why inflation is beneficial to the poor and middle class?

    9. The government spent about $700 billion a year on war in the past few years; Why is this more beneficial than the private sector spending it on hospitals, office buildings, schools, shopping malls, cars, and factories?

    10. If someone said: “The government’s standard operating procedure is based on violence.” On what grounds would you agree or disagree?

    ******
    Bonus question #11: What would either of you do to keep the taxpayers, both voting and non-voting, from having to pay the $130 million bill for both republican and democratic conventions?

  • Anonymous

    Of the economists who predicted the housing bubble successfully, a majority foresee a larger economic collapse on the near horizon. How would your administration respond to a severe economic crisis?

  • California Farmer

    In what way is Gary Johnson a joke?

  • Jim P

    Why does everything have to be on Facebook? I refuse to use it because they own everything you post there and you cannot stop them from doing anything you want. They claim to copyright of any picture or items you write. I don’t even want their cookies on my computer by visiting it. By posting there instead of here you eliminate participation by the many people who truly believe in liberty and don’t approve of Facebook’s antiliberty policy.

  • http://www.TomWoods.com Tom Woods

    I can reach an enormous audience there. When I start getting equivalent hits on this site, then we’ll talk.

  • Mr. M.

    What are the chances that Baritt Obamney will win in Nov. 2012?

  • J Cortez

    A joke?

    Please.

    He’s not be the ideologically pure monolith you want him to be, but
    compared to Rombama, he’s very good.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Christopher-Wulf/100001717021157 Christopher Wulf

    For any candidate, “could you please define theft, and its justifiable use, if any.”

  • John B Campise

    I’d ask them what their favorite sports team is. Their answers to this will be just as helpful as their answers to any question they will be asked.

  • algernon sydney

    You got my hit here. Never will on Facebook.

  • Anonymous

    Knock knock?

  • Anonymous

    I think you’ll find that Tom Woods’ efforts in terms of posting and so forth is done by evaluating cost and returns on the margin.

  • Alex jones

    Mr President, Governor Romney,
    When you are sacrificing children to Baal in secret orgies under the Federal Reserve building, do you prefer to place boy or girl children before the terrifying image of the Caananite demigod?

  • FarSide

    You may have noticed, he also posted it here. On this blog. Which is not Facebook.

  • algernon sydney

    Ah yes! I fogot about the cost of free speech.

  • Anonymous

    Opportunity cost applies to all speech, not only free speech.

  • Anonymous

    Hi Tom -

    Here’s a politically incorrect one from Holland, I imagine to hear if only the lamestreamists who decide on these things were both at liberty and had some historical background knowledge to discuss some inconvenient truths about the partnership between the welfare/warfare state and radical Islam, i.e. Islamic activism.

    Q:
    “Should people who genuinely oppose Islam for being a hateful doctrine support the so-called “War on Terror”?”

    If yes, why?
    If no, ditto.

    Kind regs from / Amsterdam (clip) /,
    Richard

    * Me thinks the quasi-religious US cult of Diversity(TM) is in perfect collusion here with the cult of state worship, and that “diversity” under the patronage of the servile state will turn out to be as diverse as the level of “security” dished out by the Homeland dept. responsible, or the “patriotism” envisioned in the Patriot Act.

  • Anonymous

    Which did more to fuel the housing bubble: artificially low interest rates created by the Federal Reserve? Or, all of the tax incentives toward leveraged home ownership?

  • Anonymous

    Gentlemen, just how dumb, on a scale of 1 to 10, was Warren Harding for advocating the practice of “thrift and economy, for denial and sacrifice if need be, for a nationwide drive against extravagance and luxury,” at the precise time when we needed people to spend and borrow their way to prosperity?