To: VRWCmember
Some clever capitalist closet conservative could, however, persuade the nascent “Republic” to make VT a Free Trade/Hong Kong-type tax shelter.
Could work.
28 posted on
06/04/2007 1:31:41 PM PDT by
IslandJeff
("I used to care, but things have changed" - Robert Zimmerman)
To: IslandJeff
“make VT a Free Trade/Hong Kong-type tax shelter”
As someone born in the real Hong Kong, that may be a good idea. But I bet most of the Vermont residents, esp those who support secession, will see red when they hear “free trade” and “Hong Kong”.
33 posted on
06/04/2007 1:36:59 PM PDT by
NZerFromHK
(The US Founding is what makes Britain and USA separated by much more than a common language.)
To: IslandJeff
It would be more likely to be one of the “People’s Republics” in Atlas Shrugged.
35 posted on
06/04/2007 1:37:43 PM PDT by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: IslandJeff
...a small cadre of writers and academics is plotting political strategy and planting the seeds of separatism...I doubt if this small cadre of academics and writers is thinking of setting up a free trade zone. And as someone once said, I'd rather be governed by fifty names chosen at random from the phone book than the faculty of Harvard!
50 posted on
06/04/2007 1:58:44 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: IslandJeff
Some clever capitalist closet conservative could, however, persuade the nascent “Republic” to make VT a Free Trade/Hong Kong-type tax shelter. Knowing the types in Vermont (and Taxachusetts which so many of them spread from like thistle seeds), I'd bet on a Zimbabwe economy over a Hong Kong economy.
65 posted on
06/04/2007 2:31:16 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
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