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Re: Privitizing Defense
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Originally Posted by iTaliAN_ICe
Do you honestly think we would not be attacked if our army was disbanded? If so you are living in a very strange fantasy indeed. Changing things now does not alter our past in any way.
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Say we reduced our military by 90%, still more than adequate to repulse an attack on the homeland, but not enough to interfere in the affairs of others halfway around the world, what would we have to fear?
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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”
Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776
"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address
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