Comment by bawana
2 days ago
What would happen if a state just let its government fail? Close all the offices, fire all the the people who spend the day thinking about money,laws, email, and other ways to justify their jobs? Just pay the police from local tax. Oh wait, local taxes already pay for the police. We have too many layers of government. Garbage collection, fire departments, public works - all are locally administered. Why do we need a state layer?
The government is simply the gang that won (vs the other gangs).
If the government fails, then you briefly get anarchy and violence until people organize into groups and use more violence to quash the anarchists. This repeats until there is only one group remaining, and that group is the government going forward.