One of the things that has fascinated me ever since I founded The Future of Freedom Foundation is why so many Americans continue to hew to statism. After all, just look around us. The statist systems that 20th-century Americans brought into existence have brought us a life of constant chaos, crisis, war, conflict, hostility, monetary debauchery, massive taxation, death, suffering, tyranny, and oppression.
I’m referring, of course, to such systems as the welfare state, the warfare state, the national-security state, the drug war, foreign wars, foreign interventions, sanctions, embargoes, state-sponsored assassinations, foreign empire of military bases, immigration controls, income taxation, paper money, the Federal Reserve, public (i.e., government) schooling, the managed-regulated economy, trade wars, and others.
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