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Armies and Debts and Taxes. Oh My!
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The founders warned us – over and over and over again – about the dangers to liberty from war. As James Madison put it, war gives us armies, which lead to debts and taxes. This trifecta makes up the “known instruments for putting the many under the domination of the few.”
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