A state is a territorial monopolist of compulsion, an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the exploitation of private property owners through expropriation, taxation, and regulation
- Hans Herman Hoppe
The base problem is that they have a monopoly on violence, which predicates all of these secondary problems. I have no idea how to distribute the use of force without causing a complete legal shitshow, but I know that it is the issue. Heinlein had some good ideas.
Hoppe nails it—a state is just a territorial bully, constantly violating property rights through taxes and regulations. Bitcoin’s decentralized power is the real answer to this exploitation.
