Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post
I think this ground has been covered repeatedly in this forum, but ok. The advantage of centralized organisation is obvious in many domains. One would be military. The US would be much weaker if every state had to decide for itself who to send to war and with what weapons and for what purpose.

Centralizing the authority requires you centralize the power which in turn requires you find some non-voluntary way of funding that apparatus.
I understand that. I misspoke when I didn't include the mandated monopoly portion of it i.e. that it must be based on tax.