Why can't states have land/resources? In fact I think that's what a state should have, and use those resources to provide materials, services and jobs for its people. This way you won't even need taxes to fund infrastructure etc which are wastly more efficient to do in centralized form. I'm not saying it should be 100% of the economy, perhaps 10-20% .
This is also where the die hard libertarians fall short. Something DID come before you, a long chain going back to the land/resources.
So who owned those in he begining? God? Native peoples ? and sold them for booze and fake pearls or taken at gunpoint..
The state should retain control/ownership over some but not all land/resources, and develop those using both public and private companies i competition.
So I guess it's fairly predictable that the particular brand of anarchist libertarian on this forum wouldn't have thought through his philosophies enough to realize that eliminating redistributive policies would also completely eliminate the fictional "labor advantage" of people who have to travel a thousand miles in order to work...
It is kind of surprising though that evorhees at least can't intuitively make the connection between the FED's substantial inflation tax and wages lost to immigration. Would you call the Federal Reserve "moral"? Do you consider the petrodollar "moral"? It seems rather odd to couch the exploitation of what is effectively modern-day tribute labor in terms of morality, especially when the armies that extract that tribute are financed via wealth-redistribution. And you go so far as to label the corporate beneficiaries of this theft the "moral" ones? I disagree. This is a huge issue, and one that is intimately tied with the fundamental reason for Bitcoin's existence. It's too bad that more of you don't recognize this.
What I think he means is that our current monetary system IS a huge redistribution system to benefit the rich. Especially the dollar. If the dollar wasn't used in world wide trade like oil etc, the US would not have been able to run super deficits year on year and print like there is no tomorrow during this financial crisis.