Excellent and fairly brief article by Ron Paul on how war seriously sucks. Aside from the fact that killing a bunch of innocent kids isn't exactly the coolest or nicest thing in the world, it is also what is ruining the economy, and why people are being impoverished via debt and inflation. Taxes are not the only way to rob you (though rest assured we should be getting more of that as well). -- KM


All war, but most particularly war funded by monetary inflation, bleeds a country in multiple ways. Obviously, many of the young people who are in the military literally give their blood, and sometimes their lives, fighting in wars of this type. Meanwhile, those who do not fight the war, but fund it, are forced to pay both the immediate costs, as well as seeing their long-term purchasing power erode, as the twin pillars of debt and inflation are foisted upon the backs of current taxpayers and future generations. Neither conspiracy nor coincidence explains steep increases in the price of gas as the war drags on. No, this is simply a reality of the inflationary policies that, among other things, make this war possible.


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