Big Governments’ One-Two Punch: Scope Creep, Then Wartime Deprivation
Governments do two things: they grow and they deprive citizens of their wealth. That process has not changed for more than a century in the USA.
Governments do two things: they grow and they deprive citizens of their wealth. That process has not changed for more than a century in the USA.
Modern American media has become so politicized that a once-venerable institution now cannot be trusted.
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