There is no longer a general public opinion that regards government as an antisocial institution based on coercion and unjust property acquisitions, to be opposed and ridiculed everywhere and at all times on principled grounds. No longer is it generally regarded as morally despicable to propagate or, even worse, to actively participate in the enforcement of acts of expropriation, and no longer is it the general opinion that one would not have any private dealings whatsoever with people who engaged in such activities. ...
The politician who actively supports a continuation of the ongoing system of non-contractual property taxation and regulation or who even demands its expansion is treated everywhere with respect, rather than contempt. The intellectual who justifies taxation and regulation receives recognition as a deep and profound thinker in the public eye, instead of being exposed as an intellectual fraud. The IRS agent is regarded as a man doing a job just as legitimate as yours and mine, and not as an outcast that no one wishes to have as a relative, friend, or neighbor.
... says Hans-Hermann Hoppe in his
The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy (pp. 63-64). The "State problem" is a problem of attitude towards the State. The State cannot rule over the people unless people support its rule or consider it "inevitable" (which it's not). So if we want to reign in the State, we need to hate the State. So please do that.
