Who Is Paying?
November 6, 2015
Who is paying for the Secret Service protection for Carson and Trump? The taxpayers I suppose: Democrat and Republican, voters and nonvoters. Why don’t presidential candidates pay for their own security? And while they are at it, why don’t they pay for their own campaigns instead of forcing the taxpayers to help them?
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

