This excerpt from
@Lyn Alden's Broken Money, seems timely and relevant after bombing Iran's 3 nuclear facilities. Who gets to pay for the fuel for the B-2 bombs to Iran and back to Missouri, pilots, all other personnel for this and future missions?
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The 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century have been defined by a greater role of nation states, financed by their flexible ledgers. On one hand, this has allowed for centralized and widespread social safety net implementations, but they tend to be popular enough that they could be financed more transparently in some form or another through taxation. On the other hand, this has allowed for constant warfare and selective bailouts around the world by diluting the savings of others in continuous and non-transparent ways. Corporations can cozy up to governments, and shape legislation that determines where public deficit spending goes, with that spending being opaquely drawn out of peoples’ savings through ongoing debasement.

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