"An extremely wise man-Robert LeFevre, whom many know better as Professor Bernardo de la Paz in Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress-once advised libertarians that, even if they didn't consider themselves anarchists, they should nevertheless "aim at zero".
Bob's reason? Inertia, which affects human affairs as surely as it does the physical and mechanical world. Because of what you might call social and political friction, you're always going to end up with less from any given effort than you wanted to begin with. But if you strive for more than you desire, you might possibly get close to what you want. And if you discover that you've gone too far, you can always make a couple of calls and have a new government up and running in a matter of hours. It's a basic principle of barter, thousands of years old. So if minarchistic libertarians (a contradiction of terms in my view) want to significantly reduce the size and power of government, then they should "aim at zero", no less than do their anarchistic bretheren." http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle422-20070617-02.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
