Watch Stossel Tonight & Tomorrow (Very Special Episode)!

As Reason regulars know, John Stossel's Fox Business Network show runs every week at 10pm ET. Stossel also runs several specials a year and his next airs tomorrow night at 10pm ET on Fox Business.

The subject? Freeloaders.

Want to know who the country's biggest freeloaders are? Here's a snippet:

Some of America's biggest [welfare] recipients of handouts are rich people.  The biggest corporate freeloaders may be the biggest industrial corporation in the world:  General Electric.

General Electric CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt is super-close to President Obama. The president named Immelt chairman of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Before that, Immelt was on Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. He's a regular companion when Obama travels abroad to hawk American exports. (Why does business need government to do that?)

Stossel reveals his own freeloading.  Federal flood insurance is a freebie for those of rich enough to have waterfront property, Stossel collected on that.  People like Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen take advantage of tax benefits that are supposed to help farmers.

Is America becoming a nation of freeloaders? Tune in tomorrow night (Friday) at 10pm ET.

More here.

I appeared on Stossel last week, talking government redundancy and waste with the host and Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). Take a look:

Comments

[Old Mexican]

Why does business need government to do that?

Competition is a very difficult thing! Hurts head!

We need government! And roads!

Oh, and "stable infrastructures"!

[Restoras]

And don't forget an educated work force!

[Old Mexican]

And rules! Lots of them! People like Tony would shit in their pants without rules!

[fish]

...and a series of tubes. Don't forget those.

[MNG]

Roads, police, education...I really think those kind of things are what government should do. When you want everyone to get pretty much the same basic service regardless of their ability to pay for that service then markets are probably not going to do that.

Markets are amazing things but only a fundamentalist expects their God to do everthing well all the time...

[Jersey Patriot]

When you want everyone to get pretty much the same basic service regardless of their ability to pay for that service then markets are probably not going to do that.

That may be true, but it's just as true of the government, as well. Are the poor getting good police and good education?

[MNG]

Better than a market would give them, the market gives people who cannot buy nothing. That's how markets work. It's not a sin, what they do they do great, but they don't do everything and anything.

[heller]

Roads, police, education...I really think those kind of things are what government should do.

OK, then pay for them.

When you want everyone to get pretty much the same basic service regardless of their ability to pay for that service then markets are probably not going to do that.

No, because markets can't force people to pay for things you want.

Markets are amazing things but only a fundamentalist expects their God to do everthing well all the time...

The only thing a market will fail to do that a government can do is force people to do things. That is the only difference. There is nothing a market cannot do better than the government as long as that thing is not coercive. So saying that the government just makes up for the things that the market fails to do is misleading. The government does things the market was never supposed to do in the first place, and for good reason.

[Jeff P]

That video just screams "Quein es mas macho?"

[Old Mexican]

El unico macho aqui soy yo, hijos de la chingada!

[Jeff P]

That video just screams "Quein es mas macho?"

[CrowWestYoungMan]

Stossel Says No Group Has It Better Than American Indians

http://colorlines.com/archives.....dians.html

[Old Mexican]

Re: CrowWestYoungMan,

Stossel Says No Group Has It Better [sic] Than American Indians

That's not what the title of the post you link to says.

[CrowWestYoungMan]

They changed the title in the last 20 minutes then because I copied and pastied it.

[Banjos]

Pasties are fun.

[Fist of Etiquette]

As Reason regulars know, John Stossel's Fox Business Network show runs every week at 10pm ET.

Reason regulars don't translate into Stossel regulars, if Team Stossel Liveblog participation is any indication.

[Mr Whipple???]

...Team Stossel Liveblog ...

What's that?

[Fist of Etiquette]

First rule of Team Stossel Liveblog: Don't talk about liveblog. Second rule of Team Stossel Liveblog: Don't talk about liveblog. Third rule of Team Stossel Liveblog: No fat chicks.

[me]

A very special edition, does that mean that someone is going to lose Their virginity? That usually what it means when they say that about a TV episode.

[Adamson]

If only I was one of the fourteen people who get the "Fox Business Network" on my cablesystem.

[mitch]

I was born, grew up, and attended college in New Jersey, so please allow me to apologize for Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi; the music, the movies, all of it.

[MNG]

Nice try. Some trangressions are unforgivable.

[another guy from jersey]

On the plus side we gave the world Overkill.

[mofo]

I think the whole corporatism / corporate welfare thing is the one issue that public libertarians like the Reason folks should be hammering on the loudest and most publicly. The Left loves to paint us a corporate shills and mere cheerleaders for big business, frankly, its their only real anti-libertarian talking point that seems to work. Libertarians could easily take that weapon away from liberals by making it a point to argue against corporate welfare and special favors for the well connected.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Stossel with a megaphone. Better than baby with a nailgun? You decide. Liveblog is a go.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Norquist doesn't knock on your door telling you that you have to be a hunter. He knocks on your door telling you that you get a 30 second headstart.

[Fist of Etiquette]

That's a lot of ellipses in that Krugman quote. If Stossel edited out the stupid, he failed.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Malkin loves her some internment camps.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Back to Europe or forward to America."

Sideways to Canada. Catty-corner to Iceland.

[Fist of Etiquette]

That commercial for Fox Business was giving me the business.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Rand Paul complaining about his Kentucky turlets. Isn't that state about a decade out of outhouses and now right into low-flow commodes? They never got to enjoy normal crappers.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Chris Elliott looks old when he wears a blow tie.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Stossel taking applause for a fifteen-year-old SNL clip.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Up next: Stossel goes through his back catalog of Hustlers.

[Fist of Etiquette]

When Stossel rides his bike to work, he puts his body and his dignity at risk.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Quips aplenty from the audience for the hooker.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I liked these two better the first time I saw them, when they were Tara Reid and Lawrence Tierney.

[Ted S.]

I prefer Gene Tierney.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Chris Lawless is the head of the Free State Project? Really? Lawless?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Helloooooo, Christina.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"I think more people are libertarian than realize it."

Audience applause for self-unawareness.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"On the liberty index, New York comes in last."

But they have that statue!

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Stick around because I'd like you to take questions from the audience."

You're the only one, John.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Free State poseur.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Christina working the audience.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Where do Free Staters stand on abortion?"

Grooooooaaaaaaaannnnn.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Stossel put Dick Butkus in his place about jobs.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Mommy, why is that man shouting at Congress through a dog cone collar?"

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Give me liberty or give me death!"

"Ugh, sit down, Pat."

[Fist of Etiquette]

Seacrest OUT.

[heller]

Holy shit, get a life FoE

[Fist of Etiquette]

Always good advice.