April 8, 2010 12:30PM # Thursday Links --- SHARE - David Boaz on libertarian nostalgia: [There’s no such thing as a golden age of lost liberty](http://reason.com/archives/2010/04/06/up-from-slavery). “If you had to choose, would you rather live in a country with a department of labor and even an income tax or a *Dred Scott* decision and a Fugitive Slave Act?” - Now that we’ve finished creating a new $1 trillion health care entitlement program, Washington has suddenly discovered that we are facing a crisis with—[surprise—entitlement programs](http://dailycaller.com/2010/04/06/the-coming-entitlement-tsunami/). - Obama’s top economic adviser suggests that it’s time for America to adopt a VAT, or value-added tax. Here’s why [imposing a VAT would pretty well finish the transformation of our country](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/vat_attack_RUxBOS7fspwKRdjNiWpXyO) into a European-style slow-growth nation. - On [*Stossel* ](http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/)tonight: David Boaz, P. J. O’Rourke and Andrew Napolitano discuss libertarianism on Fox Business at 8pm & Midnight ET. Don’t miss it. - Podcast: “[Neutralizing Net Regulation](https://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=1128)” featuring Jim Harper. ##### Related Tags [General](https://www.cato.org/general) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).