Indeed, a number of factors reduce the cost of a free society's government to a level that could best be described as paltry, particularly in comparison with present-day governments:

• All governmental programs not directly related to defense against crime and external aggression have been abolished.

• Law enforcement and the legal system are no longer saddled with the task of combatting victimless "crimes."

• The remaining costs of defending individual rights are borne to a large extent by those internal or external aggressors who transgress against those rights.

• The privatization of the prison system results in more efficient collection procedures (pp. 5.5:70-1).

• Levels of internal and external aggression are drastically diminished (pp. 5.4:134-41). Since upholding freedom against such aggression is the sole raison d'être of a liberal government, the costs of such a government are correspondingly reduced.     

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