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Are we living the Fall of Rome? New York cuts police budgets to pour $12 billion into migrants. Adding to New York’s 80,000 homeless. While we spend $100 billion on the Circus in Kiev. Edward Gibbon’s 1788 book on the fall of Rome laid out the path taken by collapsing empires: Inflation, predatory taxes and regulation that drain the productive economy. Even as the state grows like a cancer, spawning foreign wars for sport and squandering what’s left of the peoples’ wealth. There’s still time to change direction — it’s happened many times in history. But time is running out.