[Chancellor Palpatine]

They sound like a bunch of stupid parasitic Libertarian or Constitutional party zealots to me. More than happy to live of of the economic and physical infrastructure created by the effort and wealth of a government organization they desise, they'd run it into the ground in under a year.

As they squabbled over leadership and who is the greater statist, they'd be paralyzed. The joint would look like Heinlein's Coventry in under a year.

[wimpycat]

We should start a campaign for all of them to move to Idaho, and see how long they last with no federal "handouts". They'd probably repeal the state income tax, too.

Man, they are going to have to grow a lot of potatoes. I just hope their prices remain competitive.

[archy]

As they squabbled over leadership and who is the greater statist, they'd be paralyzed. The joint would look like Heinlein's Coventry in under a year.

Oh, I think more like Heinlein's Luna of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Beware the porcupines with the little brass cannons. But they can surely do no worse than Teddy Roosevelt and his *Bull Moose* candidacy of 1912.

[gcruse]

created by the effort and wealth of a government organization

Wrong..  Government creates negative wealth, that is, government
is a consumer of money.  It creates none.  If government
organization were the fountain of wealth, the USSR would have
been the premier economy.

[John Farson]

Odd you quote Mencken, yet you are opposed to efforts to restore a constitutionally limited goverment.

"The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. He can imagine and even esteem, in his way, certain false forms of liberty - for example, the right to choose between two political mountebanks, and to yell for the more obviously dishonest - but the reality is incomprehensible to him. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; ... More, he must be able to endure it - an even more arduous business. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without."
--H.L. Mencken
Notes on Democracy Part I, p.3 pp.44-5 (1926)

[weikel]

I think you fail to distinguish between minarchist and the anarcho capitalist nuts( yes anarcho capitalism is unworkable).

[Dataman]

They sound like a bunch of stupid parasitic Libertarian or Constitutional party zealots to me

The fact that they need 20k to move to a state means that there aren't 20k existing in any of the mentioned states. That's only 2%. Take over a state with 2%?