David Davis

It remains my prime thesis that if a State is to exist at all, then it ought to concern itself primarily with defence, even leaving a lot of this to the market if it can therefore be done better and cheaper. Preserving some system of Common Law, on the English model, comes close to a requirement too.

But all the other dross, like a monopoly currency, the value and status of which are dictated by fiat, “education”, “health”, “induustry”, “employment”, “media, culture and sport” (a great boondoggle that one!) and the like, can go.

Not enough time has yet been spent discussing how a libertarian state (if that is not a tautology) might defend itself against possibly hostile neighbours in its first years. For of course there will bw a lot of “unfair tax competition”, to be possibly erased by the said neighbours by force.