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“If the state can fund coercive capacity without visible cost, it will expand it. If cost is visible, it must justify it. […] How can you expect a polity to tell the truth about its governance if it cannot tell the truth about its finances?”
Sound Money could Mean Better and More Trusted Law Enforcement
Sound money principles in a democracy can restrain funding and appropriations to intentional, explicit, and transparent expansions and uses of law ...