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Re: The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land

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Post by 9c8675a8 »

munk-a wrote: post #105
darawk wrote: post #84

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Why the fear of opt-in competition? Nobody is forcing anyone to move to these places. What they are is an opportunity to try out new governance modes. They might work or they might not. I find the hostility towards people trying new things to be strange and misplaced.

I'd love to actively prevent people from moving to these places because it'll continue offshoring domestic wealth into tax havens. Honestly, this is the huge problem of our time - globalization has happened and the concepts of tax laws and taxation of value production haven't properly adapted. The US should be taxing all the value legitimately made in the US - if a designer in the US makes something that is then mass…

> I'd love to actively prevent people from moving to these places ..

Good luck with that you evil cunt. I left Norway and now I'm finally doing really, really good. I'm late (soon 40), but now have a small family (baby daughter) thanks to low taxes. Screw you.

Re: The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land

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Post by SerLava »

stale2002 wrote: post #269
SerLava wrote: post #267

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Unless they're paid in scrip, which you know they would be

Special economic zones exist in all parts of the world. And people are able to freely leave them, lol.

Special economic zones like the UAE?

Re: The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land

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Post by stale2002 »

SerLava wrote: post #272
stale2002 wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Special economic zones exist in all parts of the world. And people are able to freely leave them, lol.

Special economic zones like the UAE?

There are all sorts of special economic zones which are not some made up fantasy land that you read in a book.

This one would be literally run by the UK. I don't think the modern day UK is going to be holding people against their will, in their country. People are able to freely leave the UK, whenever they want.

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Post by m463 »

Gibbon1 wrote: post #219
m463 wrote: post #163

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> A "low tax" environment inevitably has to skimp on those services somehow. I think this is preception, not reality. The US was formed with checks and balances amongst the branches of government yet there seems to be no checks and balances against government spending or taxation. The fact that the Laffer curve[1] is a thing leads me to believe that government will continue to tax until the maximum taxation is achiev…

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