Le conflit intractable entre l'État et la Société

Without appropriation there cannot be a State, and the power of the State is in direct proportion to the amount of property it appropriates.

Contrariwise, social power is measurable by the amount of property the individual producer is able to retain and dispose of as he sees fit.The State thrives on taxation, Society suffers from it. The difference between a free Society and a dominated one is in the percentage of property the State lays its hands on.

-Frank Chodorov, via Mises.org