Unfortunately, I don’t think Colorado is the state it was in Rand’s time. Maybe Idaho.
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming. Few electoral votes so they are sparsely populated. And most of who is there already has an individualistic freedom-loving way of thinking.
If only it wasn’t so cold!
I’m there, now. Problem is, our invisible force-shield is down. I think Odungo can see us.
I left Kali when I figured out how I was being used there (hadn’t even read A.S. yet), but I knew a mortgage I was never going to pay off was just a chain around my neck. Now the federal situation is intolerable.
I suppose I’m too chicken to actually go Galt, but I find I can no longer stomach giving 70K a year to the likes of Odungo.
I am thinking of some kind of a half-assed Galt arrangement where I’ll get just a little more than what I need to survive (and use my own resources), so that I’m not really paying much, if any, taxes, and see if I can outlast these bastards.
Best of luck to you.
What if you had a Galt’s Gulch 2012. What would that look like?
What if the state refused Obamacare, and, piece by piece every federal dollar it possibly could?
It took care of it’s own schools, no federal dollars; handled it’s own welfare without federal funds - primarily by taking back the whole idea of charity from the government. On the community level, with churches and true charity.
It had an incredibly robust barter system, with high tech, and a barter currency, converting more away from fiat dollars to real goods.
Patients contracted with doctors on a retainer basis, and an independent true insurance cooperative along the lines of Woodmen of the World.
The state and the community operated on the philosophy of self reliance and independence from outside government. It accomplished this mostly by doing the things that citizens, mistakenly, abdicated to government piece by piece.
It’s citizens and leaders found incredibly creative ways to remove the federal government from having power over their lives.
Off the Federal Grid.