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“However, in order for the State to raise the price of this or any other services, some degree of public support is needed. Thus, the State will tend to provoke or allow crime or the threat of foreign aggression to increase, so that it may cite these security threats when expanding its own budget for defense. Take, for example, the destruction of the twin World Trade Center towers. Subsequent to the terror attacks on 9/11, the Department of Defense budget was massively increased, federal agents took over the role of providing airport security, and the Department of Homeland Security was born.”

Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society
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A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society by Christopher Chase Rachels
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