Show 1959 John Stossel on ReasonTV   Part 2 To watch the entire John Stossel playlist on ReasonTV visit- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axk9o80V7m4&list=PLBuns9Evn1w-5rkmBNwtfL58cx6D9irhc Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/reasontv Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reason.Magaz... Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reason Subscribe to our podcast at iTunes: https://goo.gl/az3a7a Reason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to reason.com for a point of view you won't get from legacy media and old left-right opinion magazines.   StosselTV playlist visit- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYdc0K7EJa4&list=UUjo1uN-aM3rmBV46xj7l2KA   Stossel: Ayn Rand–The Author People Love to Hate Published on Oct 10, 2017 60 years ago today, Atlas Shrugged was published. The novel still sells 100,000 copies a year. Not everyone will celebrate Atlas Shrugged's anniversary. Ayn Rand is someone people love to hate. Years after her death, people still feel compelled to attack her ideas. A recent John Oliver segment said her philosophy, objectivism, "is just a nice way of saying 'being a selfish asshole.'" Fortunately, not all people think that way. Many young people, discovering Rand for the first time, say her ideas inspire them. Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, a free market advocacy group that promotes Atlas Shrugged on college campuses, says "it's surprising how much appetite there is" for Rand's ideas. Stossel challenges him, saying, "no, college students are socialists!" Kirk responds, "they're not socialists… 60% say they think socialism is a good idea and then 70% say they don't want to pay higher taxes and they don't trust the government. They just don't understand what socialism really is." Driena Sixto discovered Rand through Turning Point USA. "I brought to class a ton of laptop stickers that said 'This laptop was brought to you by capitalism'. Towards the end of the semester I had most of the class on my side." Jennifer Grossman, CEO of the Atlas Society, argues that it's important to expose young people to Rand's work because "Fiction is more powerful than facts". Facts matter more. But often it's fiction that expands people's minds and changes how they think. Produced by Naomi Brockwell. Edited by Joshua Swain.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Stossel: Tour Guides Under Attack Published on Sep 19, 2017 Want to earn money showing someone around? It's not as simple as it sounds. Many cities require a license in order to do that. For Michelle Freenor, owner of "Savannah Belle Walking Tours" in Savannah, this meant a background check complete with blood and urine samples, a physical fitness test, plus months of studying for a college-level history exam. The city charges $100 every time the exam is taken. She passed on her first try, but many fail. All of this, just to speak for a living. Bill Durrence, Alderman of the 2nd District of Savannah, admits parts of the licensing requirements may have gone too far, but said: "the licensing and the testing, I thought was a good idea just to make sure people had the accurate information." When Michelle was diagnosed with Lupus, she told the city she might not be able to pass the physical. A licensing bureaucrat told her "you'll have to find another occupation... if you don't like it then you can sue us." So she did. The Institute for Justice, a libertarian law firm, took her case for free. The Savannah bureaucrats backed down, but it doesn't happen easily, says Dick Carpenter. "There's discovery, depositions are taken... [it can take] months, often years." But Savannah isn't the only city to create bottlenecks for those who want to give tours: Charleston (SC), New York (NY), Williamsburg (VA), St. Augustine (FL), and New Orleans (LA) all have tests. Washington, D.C. used to, until the Institute for Justice fought them too. Watch John Stossel give hi