In this article from 1950, Murray Rothbard suggests some of the less bad ways of financing military operations. Hint: monetary inflation and taxing savings and investment are among the worst.

Original article: https://mises.org/articles-interest/economics-war

On The Duty Of Natural Outlaws To Shut Up

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