Laying the idea of government to rest

Orthodox, i.e., statist, political theorists, from
John Locke to James Buchanan and John Rawls, have
tried to solve this difficulty through the make-
shift of "tacit," "implicit," or "conceptual"
agreements, contracts, or state-constitutions. All
of these characteristically tortuous and confused
attempts, however, have only added to the same
unavoidable conclusion drawn by Rothbard: That it
is impossible to derive a justification for
government from explicit contracts between private
property owners, and hence, that the institution of
the state must be considered unjust, i.e., the
result of moral error.
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Once the principle of government – judicial
monopoly and the power to tax – is incorrectly
admitted as just, any notion of restraining
government power and safeguarding individual
liberty and property is illusory. Rather, under
monopolistic auspices the price of justice and
protection will continually rise and the quality of
justice and protection fall. A tax-funded
protection agency is a contradiction in terms – an
expropriating property protector – and will
inevitably lead to more taxes and less protection.

I think Hoppe has nailed that coffin shut.

How many do you suppose can see it, to say nothing
of going cold turkey and kicking that monkey off
their back?

See the rest of this fine thinking.