"2. Americans were free to decide for themselves what to do with their own money." The author seems to have forgotten about the Whiskey Rebellion. "9. No national-security state, foreign military bases, or foreign interventionism." Except that the "U.S.government" has spent 96% of it's history making war. “A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies” – Alfred Lord Tennyson "The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not." - Joseph Sobran