The ground I shall put it upon is, that two millions sterling a year will support a sufficient army, and all the expenses of war and government, without having recourse to the inconvenient method of continually calling men from their employments, which, of all others, is the most expensive and the least substantial.
In "The American Crisis," Paine argues for a stable financial system to fund the military, criticizing the inefficiency and cost of constantly drafting citizens from their work.
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