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Source link: http://archive.mises.org/2041/the-state-was-a-mistake/

The State Was a Mistake

May 25, 2004 by

Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a faraway place (actually, a contrary-to-fact made-up one), there lived a group of human beings without benefit of government. Any government at all. How did they manage? [ENTIRE ARTICLE]

{ 53 comments }

Curt Howland June 5, 2004 at 8:45 am

Doug, you say, “It makes no sense in the cause of liberty to import such people into this country.”

This is your fundamental error. No one is “importing” anything. It is YOU who advocate the use of force to prevent individuals from making peaceful transactions that you do not approve of.

Each of your negative situations involve abuse of state power. Abusing peaceful people because you do not like the abuses of the state that you live in is not a rational act. The two are not related.

Curt-

Doug Smith June 5, 2004 at 9:50 pm

Curt,

The federal government (which actually has no Constitutional authority in this area) is importing net tax consumers in order to increase its constituency. Net tax consumers do not read Mises and Rothbard and they do not vote or otherwise act to kill the goose that laid their golden egg. That is the reality that pro-immigration libertarians refuse to face.

State controlled immigration is not a “peaceful transaction.” It is compulsory association and rent seeking.

Robert Lucas March 14, 2006 at 9:23 am

It is very interesting to see the United States decaying due to the Judean immigrants who where forced to left Europe due their anti-social charater and inability to adapt to moder culture of urban entities.

So, watch out, all you islanders of the new world: The Judean pilosophers’, “the economistas”, story is just as closed as their models are. The fallacy of the islamist threat has come obvious, and the origins of the crises in the domestic crises in American Judaism is more and more evident. Ya can’t help it.

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