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"In order to provide us with all this protection, the state managers expropriate more than 40 percent of the incomes of private producers year in and year out."

— Hoppe, Hans-Hermann event 2009

From The Private Production of Defense

Context: On the price extracted by the state for the security services it claims to provide.

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payments Taxation security State Power key Property Rights error Coercion