If the government didn’t have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos and the only food produced was foie gras.
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The ground is moving under American politics, and the fault line runs straight through U.S. foreign policy. We unpack how the Israel–Gaza war turned into a domestic litmus test that hardens the left and the right while squeezing the center into brittle talking points....
Corporate taxes and other taxes on investment constitute double and sometimes triple taxation. That's more unjust than taxation of labor or consumption. Businesses can't pay taxes; only people can. But who pays business taxes need bear no relation to whom the...
Responsible Statecraft tends to have a more common sense approach to the profligate spending on the part of the American defense establishment. The retirement of the entire ICBM arm and cancellation of the Sentinel successor would save enormous amounts of money wasted...
