[Dementon]

I hadn't seen this on FR and couldn't find it in a search.
Long, but I thought it would be of interest to FReepers everywhere.

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[NutCrackerBoy]

Thanks for posting this excellent piece. The thing that jumped out at me: Published in 1968. The ideas are just as true now as then, but it has become almost quaint to talk like this.

[agitator]

If "A" has no proper power to take "B's" property, can he delegate any such power to the sheriff? No. Even if everyone in the community desires that "B" give his extra horse to "A", they have no right individually or collectively to force him to do it.

They cannot delegate a power they themselves do not have.




So...If I don't have the authority as an individual citizen to force my neighbor to pay me $50 before he takes his car out on to the street (by force of arms and threat of grave bodily injury or death), a street which we both own, can I delegate authority I don't have to a bureaucrat at the Dept. of Motor Vehicles?

I can if I'm a lawyering politician and can get everybody to buy into my brand of self-serving socialism.

http://taor.agitator.dynip.com/on_law.htm

[luckydevi]

Sigh

Out of control spending by both parties.

[Capitalism2003]

Roads, Courts, Defense...the only legitimate functions of government in my view.

[Dementon]

bttt