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The Great Non Sequitur Committed By Defenders Of The State, Is To Leap From The Necessity Of Society To The Necessity Of The State.

The Libertarian Creed...offers The Fulfillment Of The Best Of The American Past Along With The Promise Of A Far Better Future. Libertarians Are Squarely In The Great Classical Liberal Tradition That Built The United States And Bestowed On Us The American Heritage Of Individual Liberty, A Peaceful Foreign Policy, Minimal Government, And A Free-market Economy.

We Must, Therefore, Emphasize That 'we' Are Not The Government; The Government Is Not 'us.' The Government Does Not In Any Accurate Sense 'represent' The Majority Of The People. But, Even If It Did, Even If 70 Percent Of The People Decided To Murder The Remaining 30 Percent, This Would Still Be Murder And Would Not Be Voluntary Suicide On The Part Of The Slaughtered Minority. No Organicist Metaphor, No Irrelevant Bromide That 'we Are All Part Of One Another,' Must Be Permitted To Obscure This Basic Fact.

It Is In War That The State Really Comes Into Its Own: Swelling In Power, In Number, In Pride, In Absolute Dominion Over The Economy And The Society.

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.