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But in the is the 1 percent of highest wealth-holders who libertarian tradition, matters are much clearer. are the problem. In fact, that 1 percent includes From Bastiat to Rothbard, the answer has been some of the smartest, most innovative people before our eyes. The State is the only institution in the country – the people who invent, market, in society that is permitted by law to use and distribute material blessings to the whole aggressive force against person and property. population. They also own the capital that Let’s understand through a simple example. sustains productivity and growth. Let’s say you go into a restaurant and hate But there is another 1 percent out there, those the wallpaper. You can complain and try to who do live parasitically off the population persuade the owner to change it. If he doesn’t and exploit the 99 percent. Moreover, there is change it, you can decide not to go back. But a long intellectual tradition, dating back to the if you break in, take money out of the cash late Middle Ages, that draws attention to the register, buy paint, and cover the wallpaper strange reality that a tiny minority lives off the yourself, you will be charged with criminal productive labor of the overwhelming majority. wrongdoing and perhaps go to jail. Everyone in I’m speaking of the State, which even today society agrees that you did the wrong thing. is made up of a tiny sliver of the population But the State is different. If it doesn’t like but is the direct cause of all the impoverishing the wallpaper, it can pass a law (or maybe even wars, inflation, taxes, regimentation, and social not that) and send a memo. It can mandate a conflict. This 1 percent is the direct cause of the change. It doesn’t have to do the repainting. violence, the censorship, the unemployment, The State can make you repaint the place. If you and vast amounts of poverty, too. refuse, you are guilty of criminal wrongdoing. Look at the numbers, rounding from latest Same goals, different means, two very data. The U.S. population is 307 million. There different sets of criminals. The State is the are about 20 million government employees institution that essentially redefines criminal at all levels, which makes 6.5 percent. But wrongdoing to make itself exempt from the law 6.2 million of these people are public-school that governs everyone else. teachers, who I think we can say are not really It is the same with every tax, every regulation, the ruling elite. That takes us down to 4.4 every mandate, and every single word of the percent. federal code. It all represents coercion. Even We can knock of another half-million who in the area of money and banking, it is the work for the post office, and probably the same State that created and sustains the Fed and the who work for various service-department dollar because it forcibly limits competition in bureaus. Probably another million do not work money and banking, preventing people from in any enforcement arm of the State, and there’s making gold or silver money, or innovating in also the amazing labor-pool fluff that comes other ways. And in some ways, this is the most with any government work. Local governments dreadful intervention of all, because it allows the do not cause nationwide problems (usually), State to destroy our money on a whim. and the same might be said of the 50 states. The The State is everybody’s enemy. Why don’t real problem is at the federal level (8.5 million), the protesters get this? Because they are victims from which we can subtract fluff, drones, and of propaganda by the State, doled out in public service workers. school, that attempts to blame all human In the end, we end up with about 3 million suffering on private parties and free enterprise. people who constitute what is commonly called They do not comprehend that the real enemy is the State. For short, we can just call these people the institution that brainwashes them to think the 1 percent. the way they do. The 1 percent do not generate any wealth They are right that society is rife with of their own.