Money Is The General Medium Of Exchange.

The State Has Typically Been A Device For Producing Affluence For A Few At The Expense Of Many.

[w]hich Category Of Crimes Does The State Pursue And Punish Most Intensely? [t]hose Against Private Citizens Or Those Against Itself? The Gravest Crimes In The State's Lexicon Are Almost Invariably Not Invasions Of Private Person Or Property, But Dangers To Its Own Contentment, For Example, Treason, Desertion Of A Soldier To The Enemy, Failure To Register For The Draft, Subversion And Subversive Conspiracy, Assassination Of Rulers And Such Economic Crimes Against The State As Counterfeiting Its Money Or Evasion Of Its Income Tax.

Harold, The Young Kids Out There Are Not Going To Be Willing To Go To The Barricades In Defense Of Lowered Transaction Costs.

Governments Have Persistently Tried Their Best To Promote, Encourage, And Expand The Circulation Of Bank And Government Paper, And To Discourage The People's Use Of Gold Itself.

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.