Posted on 02/05/2021 1:03:12 PM PST by Red Badger
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments.
Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state’s economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday.
The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services.
The measure to further economic development with the “alternative form of local government” has not yet been introduced in the Legislature.
Sisolak pitched the concept in his State of the State address delivered Jan. 19. The plan would bring in new businesses at the forefront of “groundbreaking technologies” without the use of tax abatements or other publicly funded incentive packages that previously helped Nevada attract companies like Tesla Inc.
Sisolak named Blockchains, LLC as a company that had committed to developing a “smart city” in an area east of Reno after the legislation has passed.
The draft proposal said the traditional local government model is “inadequate alone” to provide the resources to make Nevada a leader in attracting and retaining businesses and fostering economic development in emerging technologies and industries.
The Governor’s Office of Economic Development would oversee applications for the zones, which would be limited to companies working in specific business areas including blockchain, autonomous technology, the Internet of Things, robotics, artificial intelligence, wireless, biometrics and renewable resource technology.
Zone requirements would include applicants owning at least 78 square miles (202 square kilometers) of undeveloped, uninhabited land within a single county but separate from any city, town or tax increment area. Companies would have at least $250 million and plans to invest an additional $1 billion in their zones over 10 years.
The zones would initially operate with the oversight of their location counties, but would eventually take over county duties and become independent governmental bodies.
The zones would have three-member supervisor boards with the same powers as county commissioners. The businesses would maintain significant control over board membership.
The governor’s economic development office did not respond to questions about the zones Wednesday.
what could possibly go wrong with this plan .....
Saint Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go. I owe my soul to the company store!
No, no, no. The constitution requires states to have representative forms of government. There is no place in our law allowing the establishment of fiefdoms.
SMDH! Kind of like what Disney did in Orange County FL. They are like their own little(?) “kingdom”.
*cough*Congo Free State*cough*
You are hereby fined $25,000 and sentenced to six months of penal servitude on the basis of your most recent performance evaluation.
The state of alphabet disagrees and has already tried convicted and executed your virtual life for wrong think.
While an obvious "Rubber Stamp" for Disney World, it has adhered to benign development decisions (for the most part) though still a powerful government controlled by the "Mouse"! Though..., as one who saw his lakefront property suddenly become almost dry when Disney World began pumping massive pumps to fill their "Lagoons", I admit I was really pissed and economically impacted at the time!
Twitter Town
Facebook City
Appleton
Googleton
To which country would the new “counties” owe allegiance?
The zones would initially operate with the oversight of their location counties, but would eventually take over county duties and become independent governmental bodies.
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until they were powerful enough to take over the entire state before expanding into neighboring state or joining up with other corporate states. could become like the game monopoly. something for the youngsters to look forward to
The textbook definition of fascism.
Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments
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They already are doing this. Google/Facebook owns Biden.
“There is no place in our law allowing the establishment of fiefdoms.”
You just wait. Sounds like those science fiction stories I used to read.
This is a blatant return to feudalism and IMO, patently unconstitutional.
That explains Bill Gates being the biggest land owner in the U.S. !
What in the world? Can I just start my own too?
Remember this SCOTUS Ruling March v Alabama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama
“Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which it ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town’s sidewalk, even though the sidewalk was part of a privately owned company town. The Court based its ruling on the provisions of the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment...”
Sounds like something only a Democrat Communist could come up with. I bet Bernie loves it.
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