>>> To keep (or at least discourage) the freeloaders from moving into free states, the free states should carefully amend their constitutions to have as ironclad as possible provisions against enacting anything that even smells like socialism from 200 miles away.
They called it McCarthyism I think... and it doesn’t work either.
The answer is education and morality... the two legs of a three legged stool they have successfully destroyed in this country.
Oh... and the third leg?.... Responsibility.
I don’t understand your point about McCarthyism. Sorry.
I do agree with you on education, morality and responsibility.
However, there is nothing saying that a state could not make it legally (constitutionally) impossible for the legislature to create entitlement programs, raise taxes in certain ways or to certain levels, and so on. IOW, to outlaw the actual vehicles by which a government becomes run along socialist principles.
That’s what I’m saying. This in and of itself would dissuade some people from moving to such states. And if they did move there, they could vote for Socialists all they wanted to, but the State constitution would never allow socialist policies to be enacted.