The coercive Power of the State is the most deadly force in the human world.
Without coercive taxation, who would pay for aggressive wars?
Without coercive taxation, who would pay for the police state -- that fearsome, anti-life monstrosity which eventually becomes jailer and even mass-murderer of the people it supposedly protects?
Without coercive taxation, who would pay for all the other harmful actions of the state?
There is a reason Tolkien's Lord of the Rings revolves around a corrupting and fearsomely addictingRing of Power, and that the ONLY remedy to protect against the evil of that Ring is to DESTROY the Ring forever.
We need Civil Society, not Statism. America's Founding Fathers made a strong attempt at creating a civil society, but, as the saying goes: Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades -- which is why the tiny federal government of the 1700s became the overbearing tyranny we live with today.
As many American patriots (and patriots of foreign lands as well) have told us, initiated coercion is a crime, not a viable or honest guiding principle for society.
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The coercive Power of the State is the most deadly force in the human world.
Without coercive taxation, who would pay for aggressive wars?
Without coercive taxation, who would pay for the police state -- that fearsome, anti-life monstrosity which eventually becomes jailer and even mass-murderer of the people it supposedly protects?
Without coercive taxation, who would pay for all the other harmful actions of the state?
There is a reason Tolkien's Lord of the Rings revolves around a corrupting and fearsomely addicting Ring of Power, and that the ONLY remedy to protect against the evil of that Ring is to DESTROY the Ring forever.
We need Civil Society, not Statism. America's Founding Fathers made a strong attempt at creating a civil society, but, as the saying goes: Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades -- which is why the tiny federal government of the 1700s became the overbearing tyranny we live with today.
As many American patriots (and patriots of foreign lands as well) have told us, initiated coercion is a crime, not a viable or honest guiding principle for society.