Reddit reviews No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (Complete Series)

1. What are your views on taxes?
   
   A violation of the rights of the person being taken from.
   
   
2. If you had a distilled list of the top ten Anarcho-Capitalism principles or beliefs what would they be?
   
   Put simply, Anarcho-Capitalism is based on the common understanding of private property and the rejection of the idea that anyone, particularly the government, can legitimately override these property rights for any reason. Ancaps may abbreviate this as "The non-aggression principle", understanding 'aggression' to be "violations of person or property."
   
   
3. What are your thoughts on my position that the deregulating of the financial markets led to the great recession?
   
   For a complete treatment of the crash from an ancap perspective see the book Meltdown.
   
   
4. Do you believe that mass resource stockpiling is not a problem?
   
   It's not a problem, or to the degree that it is, economics puts a check on it.
   
   
5. Would an Anarcho-Capitalist society have laws? How would they be enforced?
   
   Yes. By institutions that society does not treat as having the legitimate authority to violate rights. E.g. The agents of the State murder innocent people and get away with it. Private security agents, in the rare circumstances where they do murder someone, are much more likely to be held accountable. The State collects taxes and people accept it, while the Mafia collects 'protection money' and everyone knows it's a racket.
   
   
6. What are the foremost writings on this system and why?
   
   

• Frederic Bastiat's The Law Amazon / HTML
  
  
• The Machinery of Freedom Third edition, Amazon / Second edition, PDF
  
  
• No Treason Amazon / HTML
  
  
• The Anatomy of the State Amazon / PDF
  

1. First choice: What /u/mr_gentleman_sir said.
   
2. Since that was already taken: Every person living in America should read No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (Complete Series) by Lysander Spooner (http://amzn.com/B0047746AW)

> I ask again, what's your alternative model?

And again, I say for the nth time, "alternate models" are not required to call the existing model what it is.

> Can you quote me some relevant Spooner if you're very familiar with him?

Spooner's work is vast, but $0.99 will get you going with this most broad work

He basically debunks the idea that citizens "consent" to the social contract and points out that without consent, contracts are void.

> Can you give me any clearer reasoning why the logic fails than "mental gymnastics?"

Because it's roundabout logic to justify something that is clearly theft. "Well without some theft, we wouldn't even have the concept of theft man"

Complete nonstarter.