{"id":58282,"date":"2026-03-21T06:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=58282"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:44:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:44:37","slug":"ron-paul-says-war-isnt-free-how-the-american-people-pay-dearly-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/21\/ron-paul-says-war-isnt-free-how-the-american-people-pay-dearly-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul says War Isn&#8217;t Free&#8230; How the American People Pay Dearly for It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just because we don&#8217;t get invoices in the mail, doesn&#8217;t mean we don&#8217;t pay dearly for the empire&#8217;s senseless wars. Most of us Americans have been hammered our entire lives to pay for them. It was hoped that the long-train of disasters was coming to an end with the second Trump Administration. But alas, it has not. And the crushing bills are continuing to come in.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V_o31xOAeuQ?si=twGr18OFQok6w9UD\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Just because we don&#8217;t get invoices in the mail, doesn&#8217;t mean we don&#8217;t pay dearly for the empire&#8217;s senseless wars. Most of us Americans have been hammered our entire lives to pay for them. It was hoped that the long-train of disasters was coming to an end with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[768,1394],"class_list":["post-58282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58285,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58282\/revisions\/58285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58282"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}