The reason behind Ron Paul is much easier to understand if you read what he has written. This is a portion of an essay written in 2004 describing his economic and political philosophy and his mentor Ludwig von Mises.
“My main motivation in entering politics was to contribute something toward establishing a free society. This desire, combined with the Austrian arguments for the efficient functioning of the market economy, has served me well. The particular interest that has occupied my time and interest has been the issue of money and inflation.
"It is impossible to concentrate on money and inflation and ignore foreign affairs, however. The two are intertwined. The fact that economic interventionism leads to a lowering of our standard of living is bad enough, but its breeding of excessive nationalism, protectionism, economic isolationism, militarism, and war should prompt us all to fear for the fate of freedom and even civilization itself, [Ludwig von] Mises’s prediction that the U.S. type of interventionism will lead to a German type of national socialism appears to be accurate. In Human Action Mises states:
“An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The whole doctrine of interventionism collapses when this fountain is drained off. The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.” (Pg 854)
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