...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place.

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

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.

...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.

It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.