The Primary Reason For A Tariff Is

If You Do Not Want The State To Act Like A Criminal, You Must Disarm It As You Would A Criminal; You Must Keep It Weak. The State Will Always Be Criminal In Proportion To Its Strength; A Weak State Will Always Be As Criminal As It Can Be, Or Dare Be, But If It Is Kept Down To The Proper Limit Of Weakness - Which, By The Way, Is A Vast Deal Lower Limit Than People Are Led To Believe - Its Criminality May Be Safely Got On With.

The Positive Testimony Of History Is That The State Invariably Had Its Origin In Conquest And Confiscation. No Primitive State Known To History Originated In Any Other Manner.

The Glossary Of Politics Is So Full Of Euphemistic Words And Phrases - As In The Nature Of Things It Must Be - That One Would Suppose Politicians Must Sometimes Strain Their Wits To Coin Them.

It Is Unfortunately None Too Well Understood That, Just As The State Has No Money Of Its Own, So It Has No Power Of Its Own. All The Power It Has Is What Society Gives It, Plus What It Confiscates From Time To Time On One Pretext Or Another, There Is No Other Source From Which State Power Can Be Drawn. Therefore Every Assumption Of State Power, Whether By Gift Or Seizure Leaves Society With So Much Less Power; There Is Never, Nor Can Be, Any Strengthening Of State Power Without A Corresponding And Roughly Equivalent Depletion Of Social Power.

The State Claims And Exercises The Monopoly Of Crime... It Forbids Private Murder, But Itself Organizes Murder On A Colossal Scale. It Punishes Private Theft, But Itself Lays Unscrupulous Hands On Anything It Wants, Whether The Property Of Citizen Or Of Alien.