“Now They Can Get Help from the Government . . .
June 30, 2016
. . . in financing their change in sexual identity.” So announced the local evening news anchor tonight, describing how the Obama administration has “ended the ban on the transgendered in the military.”
As an aside, when Hillary Clinton was the chair of the federal government’s Legal Services Corporation (LSC) during the late 1970s the LSC sued several state governments unsuccessfully to get them to pay for “sex-change operations.” James Bennett and I wrote about it in our book, Destroying Democracy: How Government Funds Partisan Politics. This has been a long road traveled by the Marxist egalitarian Left, the symbol of which is Hillary Clinton.
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.

