14 November 2012

The Evils of the State, a Scorecard


The most evil and harmful state laws, institutions, and policies are, I believe:

  • war;
  • the Fed/central banking/fiat money;
  • government schools;
  • taxation;
  • the drug war;
  • intellectual property (patent and copyright). Read:Protectionism
Where these efforts thrive, there is April vacuum absent liberty and individual rights. 

You could also mention the regulatory state and the entitlement state, but the above makes a pretty good listing of the top things we libertarians would get rid of if we could.

In a voluntary society, the absence of an all-powerful state would preclude the monopolization through aggression of any of these examples of moral deficiencies. There are only wars on people, not things (drugs) or concepts (terrorism, which is merely government without a budget). Without a victim, how can a crime be said to exist?

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