We reach the end of Jason Sorens’ original proposal. We continue next time with his revised proposal. Sorens wrote:
Unfortunately, I am neither an “organizer” type nor a well-known libertarian “personality.” I’m an aspiring political scientist, a thinker; I don’t know the first thing about leading, and my name doesn’t have cache. But if luminaries like, perhaps, Walter Williams and L. Neil Smith sign onto this project, and other motivated people join to help along with the leg work, we can really get this project off the ground. We have to start a snowball effect.
It is exciting to me that we might have a real shot at true freedom in our lifetimes. Certainly, there will be inconveniences. We might have to move away from friends and family; there might be spells of unemployment; we might have to take careers that are not our first choice. But I can’t believe that we’ve gone so soft that we won’t tolerate these inconveniences for a possibility at attaining true liberty. Our forefathers bled and died – because of the Stamp Tax! The Free State Project requires nothing of that kind, and the stakes are so much higher. How much is liberty worth to you?
If you are interested in joining this project, please e-mail me at [invalid] and give me your address. I’ve already met some others who are interested. I am going to draw up a simple pledge and some straightforward bylaws for the Free State Society and start collecting signatures. I’m open to all kinds of feedback; again, I’m hoping this project really becomes a decentralized affair – I don’t want to be a dictator of my own little club, and I don’t want your money.
1)OECD, 2000: “Towards Global Tax Co-operation (Report to the 2000 Ministerial Council Meeting and Recommendations by the Committee on Fiscal Affairs): Progress in Identifying and Eliminating Harmful Tax Practices.”
2)An exception is removing one’s children from the socialized school system, a system so corrupt that the irreparable damage it causes to our children outweighs its conveniences.
3) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21038
