Free State Project

Are you familiar with the free state project? The idea is that libertarians would move to a state and become the dominant voting block. The project members voted on which state to begin with and selected New Hampshire.

"There's no better place for freedom-loving Americans than New Hampshire... In a vote that ended in September 2003, FSP participants chose New Hampshire because it has the lowest state and local tax burden in the continental U.S., the second-lowest level of dependence on federal spending in the U.S., a citizen legislature where state house representatives have not raised their $100 per year salary since 1889, the lowest crime levels in the U.S., a dynamic economy with plenty of jobs and investment, and a culture of individual responsibility indicated by, for example, an absence of seatbelt and helmet requirements for adults."

It is too bad Arizona was not selected. Weather is better and the golf is better. I would definitely choose to move to "free" Arizona. But, NH is too cold and snowy for me. Is it possible to begin the Az Free State Project? Could enough people join to place some pressure on the legislature and governor to move toward freedom?

Given the seeming inevitability of democracy to lead to more government and less freedom, is there any hope that liberty can be reached through democracy? If we look at the current crony capitalism of our democratic society and economy, is there an approach that can lead to more freedom rather than more government? We know that competition and free markets result in resources being allocated to their highest value and people purchasing at the lowest possible prices the goods and services they most desire. So, perhaps it is competition with the existing government that is necessary. Perhaps we might set up institutions that are substitutes for the statist institutions. Instead of using public schools, we organize private ones or some type of home schooling. Perhaps we use "bitcoins" or gold rather than Federal Reserve Notes. Are there other approaches?