Austin Padgett (LudwigNeverMises)
@LudwigNverMises
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Eyes open no fear. AgTech Entrepeneur. Published at the Mises Institute. Co-host of History 102. Substack and YouTube in my profile link.
Joined March 2022
Javier Milei demonstrated that slashing regulatory bureaucracy is a solution to existential inflation. We can lower spending more easily by drastically cutting the cost of food, housing and medicine than through politically unpopular austerity, or getting a balanced budget out
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After the civil war, black per capita wealth increased 5% every decade relative to white people, all the way up to 1970 when the progress stopped. Had that rate continued past the 70’s we would have seen racial wealth parity by the year 2040. But something happened in the
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Trump asked what do libertarians care about? Angela immediately said free Ross Ulbricht. He was surprised that it was ‘just one guy’. Intrigued, he asked; Who is this guy? Who could be so important? . Trump kept pushing as to why this one guy was so popular, which led to a
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We should not expect the entire team and especially foreign policy staff to be pure libertarians. But we can demand better than Marco Rubio.
🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: RFK Jr. "DOES NOT want Marco Rubio as Secretary of State," will advocate for a "LESS NEOCON" option.
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Child labor was fazed out by the market, not legislation. 98% of child labor was gone before any legislation, and the legislation that did come had exceptions for the majority of the remaining 2% to allow rural kids to work. If you were starving your kids would be working too.
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@ninaturner Yes Monopoly, the game designed by a socialist to demonstrate how terrible capitalism is, but ended up being one of the most loved and widely sold games world wide.
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@jacksonhinklle My friend did a study abroad in Venezuela. He was skinny before and lost 30 pounds, there were massive food shortages. One grocery store does not erase the years of starvation and massive poverty.
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Saying you can’t talk about things without lived experience is the most leftist thing ever.
You can only talk about football if you’ve played in the NFL. You can only know baseball history if you’ve played in the major leagues. You can only be an expert in professional wrestling if you are in WWE.
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The department of education is seen by many as a fundamental part of the government, but it didn't even exist untill 1979. Since that time, federal education spending has increased over 300% while our achievment results have declined and our global ranking has sunk from 1st to
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@elonmusk The sun should last later in the day so kids can have more than an hour of light after they get out of being trapped in school.
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The Rubio decision is not yet final. The other option in contention for Secretary of State is Ric Grenell. When ambassador to Germany Grenell brought attention to the Ukraine war in a crushing series of op-eds warning it would happen while advocating for a treaty with.
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Great to hang out with @RepThomasMassie this weekend. Help him in his crusade against the USDA by calling your representative and telling them to co-sponsor the PRIME Act so we can have affordable high quality steak again. On Nov 5th the USDA is rolling out new mandates
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@RobertKennedyJr We don’t need the government to raise kids from the point of daycare so that both parents can work full time. We need to deregulate education and the market so that parents can afford to raise their kids and eventually teach them real skills.
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@RWMaloneMD This is what happens when you try to control everything bureaucratically. It limits the ability of the people on the ground who have more information to adapt in real time.
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Why aren’t libertarians talking about this 24/7? . Are we afraid to win? Uncomfortable?. Or do people really care about Israel so.much they don’t want to celebrate a Rothbardian revolution in the US?.
Vivek Ramaswamy to Javier Milei |."Thank you, we're learning a lot from you. and Rothbard, we won't forget!"
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@JoeBiden We don’t care what color they are, we just want someone who won’t butcher the constitution.
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And they didn’t want you to know for another 75 years.
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We are winning . Do libertarians realize we’re in the middle of an elite counter revolution for the first time in decades. And the first time we’ve had a cultural move towards liberty since the 1800’s?.
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@jordanbpeterson @CNN Probably because it was a set up to replace Biden and there wasn’t much they could do for him anyways. Their only real bias was they asked Trump about some scandals and focused on policy only for Biden.
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One of the lessons from Milei is that it was easier for him to get elected to the head of the country than to get the libertarian community in Argentina behind his efforts. Some said he's too radical, some said he wasn't radical enough, some didn't like his messaging, some.
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One of the major tensions with China comes from trying to get them to enforce US companies IP. But they never fully will as they hardly enforce IP for their own companies. So the status quo is Chinese citizens can build what they want while Americans without patents are banned.
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@ComicDaveSmith Angela touched on it with regulations and Dave with the counter elite movement and Elon. But most libertarians in this spaces don't seem to understand the moment we're at in history. We have impending hyper inflation, a collapsing society. We don't have 50 years. @JMilei has.
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@SenWarren @CapitalOne @Discover Yes because the 12th (Capital One) and 31st (Discover) largest banks merging would be a huge threat to the top 4 banks that control 80% of the market.
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@VivekGRamaswamy Probably because it was a set up to replace Biden and there wasn’t much they could do for him anyways. Their only real bias was they asked Trump about some scandals and focused on policy only for Biden.
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Around 6 months ago I started co-hosting History 102. In the last few days Elon has shared two of the episodes on X. But most libertarians have not heard of it. There is very little, close to no history content that incorporates an understanding of Austrian economics.
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@VivekGRamaswamy This is a huge win for setting up the takedown of the administrative state and demonstrates why Supreme Court justices are so important.
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RFK is going after Fauci, taking advice from Joel Salatin, staffing positions with libertarians and focusing on free market solutions to accomplish his health goals while also lowering prices. Meanwhile “The Scientific Libertarian” is sharing petitions to block his confirmation.
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@akafacehots The zoom in on Mitt Romney tearing up with the line “everybody hurts” was too much.
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@SenWarren Can you like just stop making construction unaffordable?. Milei deregulated the housing industry and rents decreased 30% in 4 months.
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For the last 8 years I’ve been obsessively repeating “it’s the regulations stupid” . Now Milei is proving the model and Vivek is championing it. Eliminating regulatory bureaucracy is the key to unlocking everything. I shared a series of quotes and tweets on my profile today.
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@JackPosobiec “Brooke L. Rollins is President and CEO of the America First Policy Institute and previously at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which promotes conservative policies focusing on limited government and free-market solutions.”. She should have good synergy with RFK at HHS.
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Libertarians are some of the only people with a deep understanding of our foundational problems. Yet, we have largely lost the plot. We have become so used to being irrelevant and obsessed with in-group signaling that we are no longer able to recognize political opportunities or.
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@Rothmus I love how you can see countries personalities in these m/f ideology graphs. Korean men are saying hell no and inflating prostitution costs across South Asia . Americans and Germans are holding firm. The English are saying “but come now dear” as they follow their wives coattails
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@LauraPowellEsq California government increases fire risk by diverting water and preventing forrest management . Insurance premiums go up due to higher risk. CA gov implements price controls . Insurance companies stop providing the policy at that rate. Giant fire happens and people are uninsured.
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@EdKrassen Ed’s job is to pretend Kamala is doing much better than she actually is so when they engage in election fraud he can say I told you so and claim the right are just sore losers.
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@ExxAlerts I like how they are doing this alien invasion psyop at the Capitol now and still nobody cares.
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The winners of the 21st century will be the countries that dismantle centralized and unaccountable regulatory bureaucracy. The Dutch Republic, despite their small size, rocketed to the top of global power rankings in the 1600’s by being the first to dismantle their guild system.
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Milei is a Misesian ancap marking radical changes while being held up as an ideal model by Jordan Peterson and praised by Konstantin, Dave Smith, Mises circles, Trump, Vivek, Elon, RFK and all of MAGA. Every major and quality faction on the right supports an ancap making.
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I am surprised libertarians have not picked up on @realDonaldTrump plan to allocate federal land for the development of free private cities in special economic zones with no federal regulations or tax burden. This creates room for true innovation without having to go to Mars.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "We'll set up special zones on federal land with ultra-low taxes and regulations for American producers. and entice the relocation of entire industries from other countries." 🔥🔥🔥
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The Nazis were more socialist than Bernie Sanders
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“I firmly believe now that our time is coming. The conditions are such that there is room now for the defense of liberty. The people know that the system we have is not working.” -@RonPaul .
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@Timcast Taps the sign…. A lot of political commentators have as little experience in the real world as college professors. Many will repeat socialist myths that we are losing our manufacturing to cheap foreign labor. Labor is on average 10-15% of revenue for manufacturing. One of the
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@LauraLoomer @ericszcz1234 @RepThomasMassie The fact you expect people to care more about Israel than their own family shows how far away you are from putting America first.
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After an interesting dinner with @realDonaldTrump I told him to give the establishment hell for us. He grinned, almost excited at the opportunity. He understands the market, not from a philosophical level but from a practical understanding of what leads to growth. His
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5 days ago HHS secretary @RobertKennedyJr spoke with libertarian farmer hero @JoelSalatin on how free markets lead to increased health and safety outcomes, while regulations result in corporate capture.
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Atlas Shrugged was more realistic than Brave New World or 1984. Socialism doesn’t lead to an indefinitely functioning tyranny, it leads to societal collapse and the power going out.
Power seems to have gone out in all of Portugal and most of Spain. The West is becoming the Third World, we need to be able to talk about this.
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@MacchaNoms Removing capital gains tax on competing currency is the only way to reduce our dependency on the fed.
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@Sargon_of_Akkad The European men don’t want to die fighting to preserve the women’s globalist bureaucracy.
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Libertarians radically underestimate the size of our movement. The GOP and DNC have avoided saying the word libertarian for as long as they could as our ideas are a threat to established interests. Now that Trump is directly appealing to us as a voting block it has broken the
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@Rothmus "never tell you that it hates you or ask you to pay for college" . This feels like projection.
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@BretWeinstein 'How many governmental institutions do we need to witness performing the INVERSE of their intended function before we understand that government monopolies have improper incentive structures' . Fixed it.
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I would hate to be European right now. It makes me feel better about Americas problems. We are both in a hole but theirs is much deeper and at least we have a shovel. Europes thrown away every advantage they had. They can’t produce, they can’t fight. The continent that.
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@EvaVlaar I know many of those bureaucrats, the farmers are right, shame and fear is the only thing that will get to them. In the fall of 2019 I attended a private roundtable hosted by the Dutch Ministry of Ag, looking to get industry input for their nitrogen reduction committee.
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@Jason @jk_rowling ‘Am I missing something?’. Yes. The woke mob doesn’t care if you’re nice or correct if you are violating concepts they hold sacred.
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@whatifalthist I think Americans get confused because they’ve never seen what it looks like when a South Asian person spends all day in the sun.
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Libertarians don’t understand the economy. They only understand the rule book . Theory can teach you tariffs, printing and regulation are all bad. But not how to weigh them against each other in context.
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@FromKulak Trump loves it and he can show he loves it to make them trust him more. Positive feedback loop engaged.
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@JustinTrudeau WEF Charles should leave farmers alone. He doesn’t own the peasants or the woods anymore.
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The growth of the state is directly correlated with the degradation of the culture. There is no need to adopt the progressive framing of Yuval Harari that individualism a regressive cultural force. Individual sovereignty IS western culture.
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@GuntherEagleman Cigarette tax’s are so high tobacco is already the number one smuggled item. Propping up 70% of black market trade routes through its volume. Banning cigarettes would be the greatest gift to cartels imaginable. Philip Morris (major tobacco company) provided our consulting.
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Almost none of people responsible for the largest libertarian gains are libertarians. Trump, Vivek, Elon, Tulsi are not only advancing obscure libertarian points in the public consciousness but the halls of power. Many of these positions were stumbled upon through common sense,.
Javier Milei demonstrated that slashing regulatory bureaucracy is a solution to existential inflation. We can lower spending more easily by drastically cutting the cost of food, housing and medicine than through politically unpopular austerity, or getting a balanced budget out
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@ninaturner Packing the Supreme Court will be the final breaking point that leads to National.divorce.
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Chevron explained in under 150 words. The Chevron doctrine required courts to defer to an agency's “reasonable” interpretation of an ambiguous statute, effectively giving regulators full lawmaking ability. In the 2023 Sackett case, the Supreme Court made a historic ruling.
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Puritans settlers are casually mentally associated with fundamentalist Christianity, funny hats and witch burnings. However, the culture founded by these early Puritans, spread throughout the US and dominates the most powerful and progressive areas of the country today. These
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Full pardon for Ross. Promises made promises kept.
Trump asked what do libertarians care about? Angela immediately said free Ross Ulbricht. He was surprised that it was ‘just one guy’. Intrigued, he asked; Who is this guy? Who could be so important? . Trump kept pushing as to why this one guy was so popular, which led to a
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@KyleKulinski Kamala is not a communist but she advertises many of their core tenants, elevating them as societally acceptable as they advance their shared goal of growing the state. While Trump is not a libertarian, it’s still good he is denigrating Marxism, elevating libertarians and.
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@mehdirhasan Imagine having to aggressively misinterpret what @jordanbpeterson said to pretend you won an argument.
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@NickJFuentes Why do you care more about Argentina joining BRICS than the chance to have a functioning economy under Milei?.
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Imagine thinking this is a black pill. Trump hosted Milei as the first world leader, they are aggressively planning out a similar model with Vivek and Elon. RFK Jr is staffing huge chunks of government with libertarians, medical freedom, regenerative ag people. All these
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Most libertarians (not me of course) predicted Milei would lose the election. After he won they predicted his failure in office. What did Milei know that libertarians didn’t understand and what can we learn from it?.
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@TempleofMercury @Parabellum2021 Better safe than sorry. Don’t want to get shot in the back after not finishing the job.
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@RollLibertyRoll This is probably the first time Trump had an hour and a half conversation, or any comversation with Anarcho Capitalists.
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@SenSanders Bernie would rather give big Pharma permanent government contracts than open up the market to actual competition.
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The libertarian party or candidate never agreed or did our part to honor Trumps offer like RFK did. We got all our leverage off our own good advice. We ended up with way more than one libertarian in the cabinet. And lower positions. Vivek is a much better libertarian than.
The Libertarian Party has achieved literally nothing in every single presidential election to date. Even if the @angela4LNCChair strategy ends up not working, the worst case scenario is she achieved the exact same outcome as every other year.
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This is like when Giuliani accused Ron Paul of saying we deserved 9/11 for pointing out that it was blowback for our interventions. @AuronMacintyre
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@alexstein99 “I hope you live forever” was the biggest curse you could put on that person 🤣.
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@whatifalthist This was the experience of millennials as well, and now Gen Alpha. It’s the new normal. Every year it lasts another few million kids are permanently damaged.
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"Vivek recently made a convincing far reaching case that the FDA shouldn't even exist at all. This is the first time we’ve seen anyone this close to power making the case for fully dismantling the administrative state in over 100 years and libertarians hardly noticed.".
Libertarians are some of the only people with a deep understanding of our foundational problems. Yet, we have largely lost the plot. We have become so used to being irrelevant and obsessed with in-group signaling that we are no longer able to recognize political opportunities or.
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@jeffreyatucker Sarah Palin never said she could see Russia from her house. Once something achieves meme status it lives forever.
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Some of the closest people to Trump are highlighting an anarcho capitalist who is the head of a nation as the blueprint for America. It happens gradually then suddenly.
More Javier Milei, less Juan Peron. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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Hoppe is getting wrecked on the largest libertarian and AnCap online forums for uncritically repeating opposition talking points to try to boost a false case that Milei is unprincipled for daring to make a difference in real peoples lives. People want hope and action not bitter
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