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Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists by costcopizza on Saturday September 23, 2017 @08:27PM (#15322553)
Surprised a libertarian billionaire hasn't assumed Highland Park's debts and run their utopia here.
Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists by stevenwoo on Saturday September 23, 2017 @09:23PM (#15322731)
You would need a billionaire because actually running things like a libertarian doesn't pay the municipal bills - it's been tried without the billionaire. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-frees...
Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists by jdale27 on Saturday September 23, 2017 @09:13PM (#15322705)
I was thinking something similar. Though rather than a billionaire, some enterprising libertarian / anarcho-capitalist folks could move there and push the city further in that direction by simply using legitimate democratic processes. Sort of like a smaller-scale version of the Free State Project in New Hampshire. Though maybe a billionaire could provide some seed funding to induce the initial migration.