Costs of Invasionism: Seen & Unseen

David Vine , anthropologist and writer at Tomdispatch.com, illustrates the cost of the military industrial complex. Readers of Bastiat's The Law, will recognize that these costs are that which is seen. Disturbing as they may be, they are only one parsel of the picture. The other side of the coin, is the damage done to producers. In order to fund the empire, the Warfare State, wealth must be forcibly expropriated from the hands of those attempting to service the ever changing demands of the consumers. The precise detriment done to society at large is incalculable in an age of inexorable advancement in the field of technology. I know that consumers would be more satisfied without the theft and taxation, that facilitates Tom's list of military expenditures. This unfulfilled potential is that which is unseen.

Liberalization of the economy would reap unimaginable benefits. Choose liberalism.