I think that following the money will also show you where the “profits” are moving. I hesitate to call what the state does as “profit” because I determine it to be much closer to “robbery”. I think those who thrive in politics are morally deficient because they are not honest. The way Hoppe puts it is that the political means are not the economic means. Political means are derived from the state’s monopoly on violence. I think the lefties are on to something by saying, “Defund the police.” That would deprive them of at least one of their methods of coercion and therefore destruction of private property.