Free State Project Eyes New Hampshire as "Libertarian Paradise" [View All]

[Kathy in Cambridge]

A local newsmagazine on Boston's ABC affiliate just did a segment on the Free State Project (http://freestateproject.org/index.jsp). This is their credo:

"The Free State Project is a plan in which 20,000 or more liberty-oriented people will move to New Hampshire, where they may work within the political system to reduce the size and scope of government. The success of the Free State Project would likely entail reductions in burdensome taxation and regulation, reforms in state and local law, an end to federal mandates, and a restoration of constitutional federalism, demonstrating the benefits of liberty to the rest of the nation and the world."

The free staters are attracted to NH because of no income tax, no sales tax, no helmet law, and little gun regulation. NH's lax environmental laws are causing problems in the neighboring states.

NH is suffering from shortfalls in education spending. Property taxes have skyrocketed to fund the growing population. I don't think they will find the paradise they think is there.

If things get bad in this country, what if a liberal movement decided to move to a Blue State and create a progressive paradise?