I See A Great Future

The State Provides A Legal, Orderly, Systematic Channel For Predation On The Property Of The Producers.

I See The Liberty Of The Individual Not Only As A Great Moral Good In Itself (or, With Lord Acton, As The Highest Political Good), But Also As The Necessary Condition For The Flowering Of All The Other Goods That Mankind Cherishes: Moral Virtue, Civilization, The Arts And Sciences, Economic Prosperity.

Instead Of A Bumbling And Inefficient Tool Of Society, The Radical [libertarian] Sees The State Itself, In Its Very Nature, As Coercive, Exploitative, Parasitic, And Hence Profoundly Antisocial. The State Is, And Always Has Been, The Great Single Enemy Of The Human Race, Its Liberty, Happiness, And Progress.

There Can Be No Such Thing As 'fairness In Taxation.' Taxation Is Nothing But Organized Theft, And The Concept Of A 'fair Tax' Is Therefore Every Bit As Absurd As That Of 'fair Theft.'

This Process, This Method Necessary To Man's Survival And Prosperity Upon The Earth, Has Often Been Derided As Unduly Or Exclusively "materialistic." But It Should Be Clear That What Has Happened In This Activity Proper To Man's Nature Is A Fusion Of "spirit" And Matter; Man's Mind, Using The Ideas It Has Learned, Directs His Energy In Transforming And Reshaping Matter Into Ways To Sustain And Advance His Wants And His Life. Behind Every "produced" Good, Behind Every Man-made Transformation Of Natural Resources, Is An Idea Directing The Effort, A Manifestation Of Man's Spirit.