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Posted on 06/21/2014 3:35:02 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat
Long before billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel dreamed up the idea of a floating libertarian island nation, a 24-year-old Yale grad student named Jason Sorens proposed a far more down-to-earth experiment for those who wanted to live the limited government lifestyle: that a critical mass of “freedom-loving people… establish residence in a small state and take over the state government.” The “Free State Project” call to action was in 2001. By 2003, five thousand people agreed to take part and they held a vote to decide which low-population state would be the staging ground for the libertarianvasion, which would be triggered when 20,000 people signed on. New Hampshire (population: 1.3 million) won — narrowly beating out Wyoming (population: 576,000) — and early movers began trickling in to help the state fully realize its “Live Free or Die” motto.
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The obstacles are already strengthening. The Concord police applied for one of those bearcats citing the threat that sovereign individuals and free staters posed. Mostly to the mirth of free staters.
Obviously the statists see the FSP as a threat.
They voted.
Puerto Rico is the only place for a libertarian state. There are no federal taxes, no obamacare mandates, and the government is actively promoting capitalism. It can be the Hong Kong of the Carribean.
Those who are exempt from Federal income taxes get to pay income taxes to PR instead, which has lower thresholds than if paying to the Feds. Plus PR has all sorts of interesting taxes on property, receipts, sales, etc. The benefit is to those who earn most of their money from passive income, capital gains. If you’re a worker bee, it’s not a particularly good deal. Plus their gun laws are on a par with Hawaii, and the criminality is on a par with Mexico.
No thanks. If a competing group wants to propose PR, I’d welcome it. I wouldn’t expect it, though.
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