Comments on: America’s Will to War: The Turning Point http://archive.mises.org/16615/americas-will-to-war-the-turning-point/ Proceeding Ever More Boldly Against Evil Tue, 21 May 2013 04:23:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Patrick Barron http://archive.mises.org/16615/americas-will-to-war-the-turning-point/comment-page-1/#comment-775921 Patrick Barron Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:16:46 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=16615#comment-775921 Excellent, really excellent! This essay should be required reading for everyone thinking of entering government. My interest is in the relationship between fiat money and war. Perhaps abandoning gold is just one more manifestation of the abandonment of the American ideal, but it seems to me that abandoning gold made going to war much easier and made wars much more bloodthirsty. I would love to read Professor Raico’s opinion on this matter…perhaps it is already published somewhere.

]]> By: newson http://archive.mises.org/16615/americas-will-to-war-the-turning-point/comment-page-1/#comment-775503 newson Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:37:22 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=16615#comment-775503 rumsfeld and myers declared war on americans, amongst others, almost ten years ago.

]]> By: Sione http://archive.mises.org/16615/americas-will-to-war-the-turning-point/comment-page-1/#comment-775139 Sione Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:34:27 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=16615#comment-775139 Well said.

Sione

]]> By: Ned Netterville http://archive.mises.org/16615/americas-will-to-war-the-turning-point/comment-page-1/#comment-775135 Ned Netterville Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:21:57 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=16615#comment-775135 I do not know whether wars or taxes are the greater immorality, but I do know that they go hand in hand like the sun and daylight. Quite obviously, without taxes wars cannot be waged. But what of the converse? Can a nation engage in taxation without going to war? I doubt it. Taxation supplies the wherewithal to engage in wars and may even make wars inevitable. Why? Because taxation is immoral. Not only is it obviously legalized extortion, but even worse, its collection requires the introduction and initiation of force in otherwise peaceful human relations. With the very existence of their nations predicated upon the use of force and violence against their own citizens to collect the taxes that pay for all of their emoluments,, those who manage the affairs of State will hardly think twice about using force and violence against foreigners by engaging in war. Tax collecting makes for war mongering.

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