
#1543 Are We Rome?
Listening to America
The Problem With Rome's War Powers
War war powers and the ability to wage war without having it regularly checked back to the people is a problem in Rome. One of the reasons Italians didn't pay taxes is because they could prevent this from happening by shutting down the budget, but regular Romans didn't want to do it. The republic leadership said okay you know you don't pay taxes we're going to fund this in different ways so that's what happened. Now regular people don't have the ability to shut off the money that goes to it I think we're in a similar situation he says.
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