Liberty on the Rocks™ Denver

If you saw the content with Prof. Rob McDonald we posted earlier today you know that we were in the Hudson Valley region of New York – the Empire State. When we departed the wonderful McDonald residence we set our sites on Irvington-on-Hudson – home of the Foundation for Economic Education (where we met some great folks and captured some stellar content including a tour of the grounds with Wayne Olson, chairman of FEE’s Board of Trustees and interviews with FEE President Larry Reed and Prof. Steve Horowitz that we’ll soon post).

As we crossed from the west to the east side of the Hudson River across the Tappan Zee Bridge we stopped at the toll. Though the sign said $5 we were charged $14.50 (though MARV has two axles at some tolls we are forced to pay double or more over the posted rate). Angry that the government was taking even more money from us I retraced our route and realized that that was not the extent of the State’s take.

At 7mpg I figured that we used about seven gallons of gas to get from Rob’s place to FEE, which equated to about $50, including a sizable chunk that was going into the State coffers/ And on top of that, the price of gas is obviously impacted by the interventions into the market caused by the imperalist interventions of the United States government abroad.

Obviously we still have some work to do…

Fortunately, as I hope we’ve shown as we travel the Americas, there are a lot of people working tirelessly to replace the force that is the State with voluntary actions that is civil society.

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