The greatest cost of the state’s coercion and infestation is that it smothers and destroys the traditions of anarchic order that maintain an orderly society. For example, one of the costs of welfare was the destruction of mutual aid societies and marriages staying together because of social pressures.

Mutual aid societies are mostly gone except for some maybe the Amish. Can’t trust what churches do now. They are mostly corrupted by the state which is another cost.

The state is acid poured all over long standing anarchic order.