The state uses taxation and redistribution to elicit obedience and maximize its discretionary power. Eventually, however, that power is dissipated through political competition of the states own making.
|Other Independent Review articles by Anthony de Jasay|
|Fall 2006||When Fair Is Not Just and Just Is Not Fair|
|Winter 2005||Liberalism, Loose or Strict|
|Summer 1999||On Treating Like Cases Alike|
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