From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Fri Dec 11 1998 - 06:40:51 MST
Joe E. Dees [jdees0@students.uwf.edu] wrote:
>In such a case, ANY government would be susceptible to the charge
>of extortion, laissez-faire representative democracy or otherwise. "I
>didn't vote for it" would prevent ANY government from collecting ANY
>taxes needed for ANYthing - even to hire water or food inspectors,
>or defend borders, or vaccinate children, or even to exist.
Yes. You seem to be getting it. You do realise that this is a list full of
anarchists, don't you? I don't particularly care about "improving"
government because I dislike all forms of government; admittedly there
are a bunch of libertarians on the list who believe in extremely limited
government (e.g. defence, etc), but I don't believe that's possible. OTOH
were the US Constitution actually enforced I'd be almost as happy to live
under that as in an anarchy.
>In the
>absense of any other authority, the law of fang and claw dictates
>that the bloodiest bully with the biggest gun rules, and at the edge of
>his firing range would be the next big-gunned bloody bully's border.
That sounds exactly like modern Statism.
Now, go and read David Friedman's work on Anarcho-capitalism and get
back to us. Just to make life easy, you can start at www.best.com/~ddfr.
BTW, I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned his new book (on the Web)
about the economics of law in recent discussions; I've only skimmed bits
of it, but it seems to have a lot of useful points to make.
Mark
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