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Try me, I may believe you.

I was recently told that one James Dale Davidson, formerly from the National Taxpayers Union, has similar ideas.

Monarchism received a huge boost from Hans Helmut Hoppe, who noted that monarchy neatly resolves the Tragedy of the Commons, because under a monarchy the king owns the commons.

This doesn't make me primarily a monarchist, although I won't reject the label. "Feudalist" would be a better one. I believe that the Western Civilization got off track with the invention of absolute monarchy and nation-state circa 1500. The revolutions of 17 and 18 centuries were an attempt to slow down the erosion of freedom inherent in nationalist absolute monarchy by introducing democratic management of the commons. Some slowdown did occur, but the attempt has proven unsuccessful over time. At this point a restoration of even an absolute monarchy might be an improvement.