[William Tell]

Pest said: "However, you need a solid group of industrious, like-minded people to make it work. I'm afraid that some Free Staters may be malcontents who would not pull their weight, leaving everyone in the same situation as before."

I don't think this is an experiment in Marxism. If someone among this group doesn't pull his weight, then his family does not eat. That won't affect the others in the slightest. The only reason to pick one state is so that the balance in that state can be tipped toward individual responsibility and away from collectivism.

If the plan was to locate everyone in the same locale within the state, that would simply introduce problems into such a locale that it doesn't deserve.

As I would envision it, there would be no need for Free Staters to even know who the others are. The benefit comes just from the shift in political leanings of the entire population.

Free Staters should probably be urged to "encourage" liberals to start their own "Slave State" program to relocate elsewhere. This will have a similar beneficial effect on the political leanings of the whole state.

[Pest]

Free Staters should probably be urged to "encourage" liberals to start their own "Slave State" program to relocate elsewhere. This will have a similar beneficial effect on the political leanings of the whole state.

It already exists. It's called California.

[ConservativeDude]

Free Staters should probably be urged to "encourage" liberals to start their own "Slave State" program to relocate elsewhere.

that was really funny, and true...

[JohnGalt]

I think there is one element I missed.

I am not quite thirty but thanks to some decent investing, foresight, and delayed gratification, my wife, self and future children really would not need that much money to live a fine life that has us spending a maximum amount of time together, provided there was access to nature and what not.

Some of the extra's in life like vacations can be jettisoned however, I would miss museums and art exhibits so I think some access to the outside world would be necessary. That said, building a community is more than just a commercial operation, and it would be my concern that the FSP is filled with 'doers' and 'activists' rather than people who simply want to be left alone, raise their children in a place that loves the West and loves American concepts of liberty, and to live off what they earned in Yankeedom.

Confrontation in the courts costs money, which means taxes, and I am not sure that would be the best choice for me and my happiness, despite romantic urges to take on the federalis.

[archy]

Free Staters should probably be urged to "encourage" liberals to start their own "Slave State" program to relocate elsewhere. This will have a similar beneficial effect on the political leanings of the whole state.

State motto: Arbeit macht frei....