13th book of 2024 complete:

Taxing Wars: The American Way of War Finance and the Decline of Democracy by Sarah Kreps

With the costs of wars expanding rapidly, politicians are loathe to raise taxes which would bring questions, scrutiny, and pushback

So they have turned to borrowing to obfuscate their wars and the costs

Thanks to nostr:npub1eg59l0mdz29d7srvg9kr8g76lspy9effny25qp425sl2mhcqfmeqqrpnw6 for telling me about this book after seeing the author give a talk at #BitcoinAtlantis