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Tim
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 06/22/2004 : 02:21:59
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http://cbs4boston.com/nhnews/NH--FreeTown-en/resources_news_html
http://wbz1030.com/nhnews/NH--FreeTownProject-en/resources_news_html
http://www.freestateproject.org/index.jsp
How would you feel if a large group of out-of-towners moved into your little community with the express intent of having enough votes to take over your town council? Then, they intend on forcing you to live under the thumb of their ideology! Whether that ideology is admirable or not, should these new-comers have the ethical right to dictate to your community how you must now live?
(Of course, this is all about liberty. The towns folk still have the right to pack up their lives in little boxes and move away--That is liberty and freedom...isn't it?)
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"We got an issue in America. Too many good docs are gettin' out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their -- their love with women all across this country." Dubya in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 9/6/2004
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tw101356
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 06/22/2004 : 05:54:53 [Permalink]
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I don't usually say this, but...
ROTFLMAO
I'm just dying for this to happen. I'll be reading about this little utopia falling apart for years in the Boston Globe. (I live in metro Boston.)
New Hampshire certainly does have no state income or sales taxes, but many of the residents work in MA, and thus have to pay MA non-resident income tax on wages earned in this state. I don't know how they missed the fact that NH has whopping property taxes. All local revenue is from local taxation. If 20,000 people move into one town, guess who will be paying extra property taxes to augment the federally mandated upgrade to the sewer anad water systems?
This will be the most entertainment a curmudgeon could ever ask for. (Well, maybe not. I can think of some things involving the ICR that would be more entertaining.)
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/22/2004 : 07:11:53 [Permalink]
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I too, would love to see it! Hell, I'd even move back to Vermont just to watch the show (I lived there for 16 years and learned to love the state, even in the <shudder> winter).
I don't think it'd last long, if only for the old saying: "We got nine months of good sking and three months of tough sledding!" 
Unless things have changed considerably since I came back south, the job situation is dim. And small town folk, north or south don't take kindly to a lot of strangers trying to tell them what to do. If this is what it sounds like, their welcome would wear thin as last year's cheap, re-cap snowtire the first day.
For some perverse reason, I find myself reminded of Jonestown, dunno why. Perhaps it's because the 'settlers' have no idea what they might be getting into.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2004 : 23:06:46 [Permalink]
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The current town council can easily block such things from happening... they just pass an addendum to their local tax laws that increases the cost of building a new home in the city limits. Make it hurt, something like a $50K fee for new developement. Make it non-applicable to current residents.
The FL keys have something like it (the fees for permits and the process to get them are intense), so it's probably legal... |
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
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Posted - 06/23/2004 : 00:53:46 [Permalink]
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2004 : 10:36:10 [Permalink]
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I am more libertarian than anything else... I have to agree with you Starman, that alot of libertarians don't have a real solid base in reality.
There are some very important concepts that libertarians advocate, it's just the implementation they want is unrealistic. (for example, the total disolution of several gov departments) Some downsizing may be in order, but can you imagine completely getting rid of the department of commerce?
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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