Government Is A Gang Of Thieves Writ

Since The State Necessarily Lives By The Compulsory Confiscation Of Private Capital, And Since Its Expansion Necessarily Involves Ever-greater Incursions On Private Individuals And Private Enterprise, We Must Assert That The State Is Profoundly And Inherently Anti-capitalist .

Pollution And Overuse Of Resources Stem Directly From The Failure Of Government To Defend Private Property. If Property Rights Were To Be Defended Adequately, We Would Find That Here, As In Other Areas Of Our Economy And Society, Private Enterprise And Modern Technology Would Come Not As A Curse To Mankind But As Its Salvation.

Modern Economics Is A Set Of Formal Models And Equations Purporting To Fully Determine Human Behaviour, At Least In The Economic Realm. And There Is No Way That Uncertainty Can Be Compressed Into Determinate Mathematical Models.

All Of The Services Commonly Thought To Require The State-from The Coining Of Money To Police Protection To The Development Of Law In Defense Of The Rights Of Person And Property-can Be And Have Been Supplied Far More Efficiently And Certainly More Morally By Private Persons. The State Is In No Sense Required By The Nature Of Man; Quite The Contrary.

[professional Politicians] Don't Mind If Price Controls Cause Shortages Of Health Care. In Fact, They Welcome The Prospect, Because Then They Can Impose Rationing; They Can Impose Priorities, And Tell Everyone How Much Of What Kind Of Medical Care They Can Have. And Besides, ... There's That Deeply Satisfying Rush Of Power.