{"id":13800,"date":"2010-12-14T14:45:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T21:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13800"},"modified":"2010-12-14T14:45:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T21:45:26","slug":"the-global-history-of-health-and-wealth-over-the-past-200-years-expressed-visually-in-four-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13800\/the-global-history-of-health-and-wealth-over-the-past-200-years-expressed-visually-in-four-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"The global history of health and wealth over the past 200 years — expressed visually in four minutes."},"content":{"rendered":"

This is amazing, but what’s more astounding to me is to think of how much more dramatic this presentation could have been without the taxes, restraints and wars foisted upon us by the state. Health and wealth are found first and most in free countries, last and worst in slave states. The inference to be drawn is obvious: The less government there is, the greater the longevity and prosperity of ordinary people.<\/p>\n

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This is amazing, but what’s more astounding to me is to think of how much more dramatic this presentation could have been without the taxes, restraints and wars foisted upon us by the state. Health and wealth are found first and most in free countries, last and worst in slave states. 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