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It's all academic!

Posted by tkstone 9 years, 6 months ago to Government
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My wife and I were discussing the failed socialist experiment called Biosphere Two, and it made me wonder if maybe we could establish Galt's Gulch as an academic experiment tell the goverent to leave us alone for a while and we will publish the results in ten years. Treat us like a Native American reservation and we will let you know how it works out. Just a thought.


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  • Posted by jimslag 9 years, 6 months ago
    I like the idea but you and I know that the government is not going to let anything like this happen. They do not want to let any of us cash cows go, it would set a bad precedence.
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  • Posted by NealS 9 years, 6 months ago
    Yes I agree. I think they should draw the line down the Mississippi River. We could then compete East U.S. against West U.S. (Please make the West the side of the Shruggers).
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 6 months ago
    First, they'd have to come in to make sure the children were alright. Then, everybody would need their vaccines. Then, water rights would have to be established, even if just taken from private well. Then, the waste management board would have to approve what you do with your waste. Then, you'd have to abide by Common Core because we want "no child left behind". Then, you'd have to all pay taxes on commerce. How's the electricity generated? That has to be approved, you know...

    We're all just livestock. We might be allowed to have the illusion of freedom as long as we kept the yield up for the farmer...
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago
    I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man or ask anyone to live for mine. I never suggested taking any funds. Only the freedom to live as I choose. I think the ten year study would be an easier sell then forever. Since Honduras is working on the concept we would not have to reinvent the wheel administratively. Has anyone seen the framework legislation for their ZEDS?
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 6 months ago
    I agree with Zenphamy that the money might come with strings and intrusion, BUT if you could get them to do it AND someone there created the next Facebook, they might take interest in expanding the program. Of course they'd want to find a way to get the benefit of the free zone and the benefit of the tax revenue. So it would be the beginning of a struggle, but I'd accept that first step.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago
    State governments already allow Tax Increment Financing tools to incentivize development. What if we used the proposal to abate taxes on improvements for twenty years. I know it is not the ultimate answer, but if our country still exists at that point we would have good evidence for our argument for getting the government out of our lives. Unfortunately this would only work with property tax and maybe sales tax. ....Incremental I know.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 6 months ago
    Yeah, I'm a dreamer too. That bummer called reality keeps waking me up.
    Our government long ago created reservations to control American Indians. Not to let them experiment with freedom.
    I'm not saying such a dream of for real Galt Gulches is an impossibly.
    Maybe later. The conniving government we have now only pretends to love freedom.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 6 months ago
    Not quite like a Native American reservation. Whatever else an N.A. reservation might be, it is not sovereign, in the way that, say, Bophuthatswana is sovereign. And I don't look for this government to agree to anything like this.
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