How War Leads to Big Government
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2014.
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2014.
It is not a coincidence that an increasing percentage of child migrants to the US border are from areas devastated by the American drug war, writes
An increasing percentage of migrants to the US-Mexican border are from Central American countries. It is not merely a coincidence that these same areas have been devastated by the American war on drugs, which has destroyed economies and increased crime in much of the region.
Summary by Luis Rivera III:
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From Ancient Rome through modern-day America, money inflation has been the means by which the state extracts wealth without recourse to taxation.
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Robert Higgs, editor of The Independent Review, is the author of the book Crisis and Leviathan, a survey of the episodic growth of the federal government in periods of war and economic crisis.