-->"What most Americans to this day do not understand is that the nature of the state is POWER. The state is an economic dependant upon civil society. The State is courts and jails, regulatory agencies and rules that people in civil society must comply with in order to stay clear of the courts, fines and jail. The state is taxes and imposts. It gives “permissions” which must be obtained before one can do things on one’s own private property. The state is the men with guns, hired by the state, whether they are American soldiers in Iraq or police officers in a small town in America.
The state and all its dependents (employees) are direct dependents of civil society. In general, an employee of the state can improve his or her economic situation by getting promoted higher up in the government organisation they are in. The best way to do that is to figure out something else that their
particular department can do, something which will expand its personnel, its reach and range of activities and first and foremost, its annual BUDGET. As a consequence of this push by almost ALL state employees, civil society is in continual retreat, personal freedoms are diminished, taxes are increased."

Bill Buckler
The Privateer