Werewolf said:
They misunderstand; it was a DIVIDEND. There is a difference. ;-)
Yes, she's nuts and oddly, too ignorant of history to even know that she nearly has a valid point…..history abounds with examples of the dangers of bribing troops with funds above or apart from their properly established rates of pay. Particularly in Ancient Rome where emperors were routinely enthroned and dethroned as a matter of whether the legions and the Praetorians were satisfied with their bribes. True, the Roman Republican after which our modern nation was patterned on, didn't see this as often as in the later Empire, but it was things like this that caused Rome to transition from a Republic to an Empire.
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