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The Cost of War: Our Liberty

James Madison warned that “of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded.” Why? Because it sows the seeds for other threats to liberty.

Madison specifically mentioned taxation. War is expensive.

And the cost isn’t just in dollar terms.

For Further Reading

James Madison on War as a Great Threat to Liberty

The Astronomical Price of America’s Undeclared Wars

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