All Comments

  • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Are you interested in a 5-acre island off of Nicaragua that is up for sale?"
    There must be hundreds of similar islands. It would be cool to look up what Nicaraguan gov't would require to make it a zona franca (economic development zone) exempt from tariffs and some taxes. The group that buys would be organized as something like 501c3 or LLC or some legal structure. Big international law firms enjoy doing reduced-rate work like this just to be known as the first firm to set a new trend. If this becomes a thing, like famous rulings we learnt in school, they want to have been a part of it. The legal doc will need, bylaws, means to appoint a board, etc. There should be some other less-public docs about all the taxes and rules you wish to avoid. You'll push the boundaries later. If you could get one software firm a couple million in revenue to move there, that'd be a start.

    For it to work IMHO, you'd have to welcome people want to avoid taxes and people who would otherwise consider moving to Svartlamon in Trondheim. It would be a huge challenge to have a bunch of techies, hippies, and tax shelter seekers living in 200,000 sq ft.

    On the off chance it turned into more than a place to rent a fake main office for tax purposes and/or a place to find drugs/prostitutes, it would spread to other places. Then 60 years from now some partner at Arnold and Porter will carry on about how their firm helped establish the very first free state.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You might consider farther south: Bonaire and Curacao. No hurricane threats. Trade winds good for wind power. Solar consistent, too. Bonaire is a part of the Netherlands (since 2010) but Curacao is an independent country (since 2010.)

    Another option is Guanaja in Honduras Bay Islands. Have good friends who own a diving resort there. Great people from Texas. See:
    http://www.clearwaterparadise.com/
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I heard several doctors saying that Costa Rica was the place to go for medical tourism.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I still like the idea of building our own paradise above a reef halfway between Honduras and the Caymans, but a small, defensible part of Guatemala as high up as possible might be possible.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by Solver 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Individuals rights will always exist as long as individuals exist, but they will be ignored and violated even more than they are now.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I know RMP. The end of Individual Rights will come at the hands of an army of takers led by the lying, corrupt, sleezy politicians they have elected.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Certainly not enough of them. This is one of the reasons why I don't think we can wait to hope for political change in America. If you believe that we have gotten past the tipping point, then there really is no going back.

    This is why it is time to lay out our plan for Atlantis.
    Reply | Permalink  

  • Comment hidden. Undo