“Yet how can there be better protection for A and B, if S must tax them in order to provide it? Is there not a contradiction within the very construction of S as an expropriating property protector? In fact, is this not exactly what is also--and more appropriately—referred to as a protection racket? To be sure, S will make peace between A and B but only so that he himself can rob both of them more profitably.”
—Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed
