[jpl]

This "Free State Project" isn't even an original idea. This was already floated back 30 years ago or so in Playboy magazine in an article titled "Take over Vermont", and the modern granolafied, hippy-dippy Vermont is the result.

[TigersEye]

So it's an idea that will work!

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

This "Free State Project" isn't even an original idea.

So?

Any comments on the merits of the idea?

[Chuckster]

This "Free State Project" isn't even an original idea. This was already floated back 30 years ago or so in Playboy magazine in an article titled "Take over Vermont", and the modern granolafied, hippy-dippy Vermont is the result.

Yeah, too bad about that. Now there is the "Take back Vermont" movement by rural conservatives which might just succeed if VT is chosen for the FSP experiment. Vermont is one of the top ten FSP candidates. Although I am not a FSP member, I have been watching the project with interest because I own property in my native state (VT) and I am planning to retire there in the near future. IMO the FSP could succeed in Vermont; or New Hampshire but it is unlikely that an Eastern state will be chosen.