With taxes thus reduced to the minimum required to procure security for all, lobbyists, abuses, privileges, and the exploitation of laws for individual interests will also be reduced to a minimum.
— Frédéric Bastiat, “Petition from an Economist” [1848] |
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September 13, 2022
Military Self-Delusion on the Constitution
Several former U.S. defense secretaries and retired generals recently published an open letter about the current political environment in America. The letter stated, among other things: “Military officers swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution, not an oath of fealty to an individual or to an office.” That’s just pure nonsense and self-delusion. Oh, sure, technically it’s true that … |
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