My only disagreement is the term "public debt"... "Public" is an abstraction, and cannot assume a debt; only individuals can assume debt, thus any "public debt" is really an individual debt assumed by the people who took out the loans. I, an individual, had no part in creating any "public debt", and I am not liable for anyone else's debt.

I had read a few dozen libertarian-esque books, but it was "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat which made the state's actual functioning clear to me. Some believe they have the right to own others, and to take their management fee by force from their slaves. Almost any other way of describing the corporations doing business as "The Peoples' Republic of..." or "The United States of..." is merely a euphemism for the plantations where humans are farmed for their productive/destructive capacity. This is the political history of the world since the Agricultural Revolution.