Worst of all, in Herr von Haller's opinion, is 'the right to impose ta.m on the private resources of individuals, their trade, their production, or their consumption in order to payfor the needs ofthe state; for this means that both the king himself (since the resources of the state are not the private property of the sovereign, but the resources of the state itself) and the Pmssian citizens have nothing oftheir own, neither their persons nor their assets, and all subjects are serfi the service ofthe state'.