Eugene Coyle wrote:
A friend suggests that if we funded wars out of the property tax we would have no war. People seem to vote down any local spending -- for schools, parks, whatever. Let them vote down war.
Not necessarily. If local spending is for a beefed-up police force, they will often vote yes. I am afraid that we are dealing with an extremely reactionary public in the USA. Perhaps some bloody reversals on the battlefield might do the trick.
