No way. As I quoted here and elsewhere, as Rothbard said:
It is not incumbent on the libertarian to always proclaim his full “anarchist” position in whatever he writes; but it is incumbent upon him in no way to praise taxation or condone it; he should simply leave this perhaps glaring vacuum, and wait for the eager reader to begin to question and perhaps come to you for further enlightenment. But if the libertarian says, “Of course, some taxes must be levied,” or something of the sort, he has betrayed the cause.
Ron Paul may use the Constitution and minarchist rhetoric as part of a strategy to appeal to a wider audience, but he never actually supports statism. And in fact, he comes right out and says what his true feelings are on various issues, you just have to be paying attention.
Stossel could easily avoid advocacy of the state and language that supports it, but he doesn’t do that. He comes right out and says we need government. He’s said it many times. He’s talked about how no one wants to live in the countries with the most government (i.e. North Korea, U.S.S.R., East Germany, etc.), but the absolute worst places on Earth are where there is no government (he’s thinking of areas like central and eastern Africa, I suppose). He talks about “legitimate functions of government”. As I said, he came right out and stated that the notion of a private national defense was a bit hard for even him to grasp.
No, Stossel is a true minarchist. He truly believes government is not only justified, but necessary. Again, I fully believe this is simply due to a lack of consideration and study on his part, but it’s still his position nonetheless.