Time to Find a New Country?
How many times have you heard celebrities whine about moving to another country if such-and-such gets elected? (Barbara Streisand, Alec Baldwin, Rosie O’Donnell, et al). Even I wonder what it would be like to purchase a small island and set up a minimalist form of government (probably just borrow the same Constitution we already have).
Then it got me thinking. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a market economy amongst various forms of government? For instance, wouldn’t it be neat if you had a bunch of small countries close together that you could freely move between? And all the countries would extend you the same basic rights to life, liberty, and property. And none of the countries would tax commerce between one another. But if you didn’t like the way things were being run in one country, you could buy a house a couple of driving hours away and not have to worry about becoming a citizen in the new country or crossing the border.
This way, governments would strive to compete against one another to serve the people - keep taxes low, and government involvement in their lives at a minimum.
Oh wait. I think we had a system like that or something. Whatever happened to that?
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“Whatever happened to that?”
The Commerce Clause.
Bolshevism, right Kip?