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You can think of it as a charity (lets say paying for a prayer group, or funding abortions) using extortion to fund itself. Now lets assume you don't really want to fund such a charity, but they will send some thugs to your house to threaten you into paying if you are late, to the point of...
Statistics for Somalia before and after the fall of the state and compared with the surrounding regions.
Somalia After State Collapse: Chaos or Improvement? (The Independent Institute)
http://www.independent.org/pdf/working_papers/64_somalia.pdf
Better off stateless: Somalia before...
A must watch.
Pt. 1 - Goes into the "cult of personality" around Obama and McCain.
Pt. 2 - Goes into the the lies regarding the Economy.
Pt. 3 - Goes into the myth that government is there to help.
Pt. 4 - Goes into how campaign finance reform is more about shutting down grass root...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK6SS4ETHWQ
Is it your responsibility to pay off your neighbors credit cards or car loan? If not then the national debt is not your responsibility either. Where is the contract you signed if it is yours?
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_10920817
Which brings up the question.
Is government really there for your protection?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory170.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/molyneux/molyneux29.html
http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/10673881.html
http://www.leakednews.com/2008/07/30/mandatory-gun-ownership-law-in-ga-town-resulted-in-low-crime.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/war-and-inflation.html
http://mises.org/story/2983
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kramer/kramer15.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt335.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul462.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north630.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory160.html
http://mises.org/story/2894
"...fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen." Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. Ct. of Ap., 1981)
See also the decisions in:
* Riss v...
http://mises.org/story/2891