re: #222 Yashmak

You’re straight out of your mind. How can you avoid that, and have any sort of federal government whatsoever? You cannot, and you know it. No one here is sanctioning a nanny-state solution…LGF regulars pretty much unanimously abhor nanny-state legislation.

But hey, guess we should just dump the military entirely, because it’s funded by taxes taken from the citizenry! That’s mixing of the economy and state! GADS!

re: #123 Lazarus

Defense is a proper function of government — something the free market cannot provide a rights-respecting society. Government is the only legitimate institution to have the legal sanction to use force. Hence, the military (to protect citizens from attack from abroad), the courts (to resolve legal disputes), and the police (to protect citizens from domestic attack) are the only proper functions of government.

The production of goods and services must be left to the free market.