” .. and provide indivisible ‘public goods’ that the rest of us need but would not organize for ourselves if we were left to our own devices …”…

You lost me at that point. I believe the state should be limited to its essentials: protection of its citizens via strong police & defence forces and administering the justice system.

That’s it. Everything else can be arranged peacefully, without state coercion.

You’re dreaming if you expect the state ‘to work efficiently’. On the contrary, it behoves the state to be as inefficient as possible in order to justify its grotesquely bloated existence.

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