What if a State had to ask permission?
Say they have no right to taxation, all treasury contributions to be voluntary. They have to solicit funds rather than raise debt.
Each state is limited to your local community, ~100k max.
What if the state couldn’t support cronies because they have to bid for services in the free market?
I like the idea. States ought be much smaller by orders of magnitude. 100k people sounds about right. Small enough that you could definitely approach the nearest representative and give him a piece of your mind, and sending troops to your door in retaliation constitutes a measurable portion of their non-effectively-infinite budget, yet large enough that the proceedings can do real work.
I’m not convinced anyone will voluntarily pay taxes - you cannot even get a small community like Nostr out of the red.
I’m all for localizing power as much as possible, but nothing about that is going to address back door and shady dealings by $2T companies, which is the problem the world faces.
I’d love to be convinced on a method to do that without government intervention - being that I’m a small govt guy. I just haven’t yet. It’s a dilemma.
Companies being multi-billion (let alone multi-trillion) dollar entities is definitely an issue. Throwing that much weight around would definitely destroy whole states the size of mid-sized cities. Voluntary coordination between sovereign entities would have to exist.
That's what the United States of America used to be and was supposed to remain. Thank the first civil war for that change.
