Trump Breaks It, We Pay for It: The Cost of Cleaning Up the Deep State’s Mess. “We Pay for the Wars”

The American taxpayer has become the cleanup crew for the American Police State. We pay for the constitutional violations. We pay for the wars. We pay for the lawsuits, the settlements, the cover-ups, the damage control, the reconstruction, the overreach, the incompetence and the corruption. And when government officials are finally called to account for their misconduct, we pay for that, too. That is the dirty little secret of government accountability in America: even when the government loses, the government does not really pay. “We the people” do. This is not a problem invented by Donald Trump.”

Click here for the full article by John and Nisha Whitehead: https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-cost-cleaning-deep-state-mess/5930244

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Mark Skidmore is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University where he holds the Morris Chair in State and Local Government Finance and Policy. His research focuses on topics in public finance, regional economics, and the economics of natural disasters. Mark created the Lighthouse Economics website and blog to share economic research and information relevant for navigating tumultuous times.

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