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The War on Poverty Makes Poverty Worse

https://mises.org/mises-wire/war-poverty-makes-poverty-worse

By Christopher Baecker

> Government officials like to claim they are doing something about reducing poverty. The trouble is, of course, that what they are doing makes things worse. Next time, they should do nothing.

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stacktoshi 🚀 ∞/21m 1y ago

So, paying taxes to fund the welfare state might even be less moral than fighting wars?? At least with a war your theoretically defending yourself and your country might gain some resources 😂

FUCK THE STATE

Undisciplined 1y ago

It's certainly less moral than self-defense, but war is not self defense.