The Inner Contradictions of the State, by Murrary N. Rothbard

The following is excerpted from Rothbard's larger work The Ethics of Liberty.


A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH discussions of the necessity of government is the fact that all such discussions necessarily take place within a context of centuries of State existence and State rule—rule to which the public has become habituated. The wry coupling of the twin certainties in the popular motto “death and taxes”