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Mises Daily: Wednesday, February 29, 2012

February 29, 2012 by

“Military Spending and Bastiat’s ‘Unseen’” by Eric Phillips

Every dollar spent on the military, just like every dollar spent on the Department of Health and Human Services, is a dollar not spent or invested in the civilian economy. Every person employed by the military or the firms that supply the military with equipment is a person not employed in the civilian economy.

“Regulatory-Industrial Complex” by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

In every administration, the tools of inflation, borrowing, taxation, and regulation are used to transfer wealth from the people to the government and its cronies.

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