The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

True #‎ anarchism will be #‎ capitalism , and true capitalism will be anarchism.

If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will. As a result, this 'inflation' of the money supply destroys the value of the dollar or pound, drives up prices, cripples economic calculation, and hobbles and seriously damages the workings of the market economy.

In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money toward the end of the chain, and still worse losers are the people (e.g., those on fixed incomes such as annuities, interest, or pensions) who never receive the new money.

Since 1933, New Deal farm policy has continued and expanded, pursuing its grisly logic at the expense of the nation's consumers, year in and year out, in Democrat or Republican regimes, in good times and in bad.