Well, I consider myself independent. I bash the left, right, and center equally. It’s not about liberal vs conservative for me, it’s about commentary on things I see as interesting.

If you read other posts you’ll see I’ve taken Detroit’s liberal politicians to task. Corruption and bad policy knows no boundaries unfortunately.

You are free to label me as you like though.

The irony of a liberal’s blogging on the devastation of Detroit is rich as it was liberal policies that destroyed it and are in the process of destroying the rest of Michigan. I know from experience; I live in Buffalo.

Brian, of course I’ve heard of the ‘free market’, but you yourself state that a ‘tax’ may be collected to pay for a police force. The Wayne County Sheriff’s Department isn’t going to contract with individuals unless you are willing to pay a small fortune.

Human waste now goes through a sewer system paid for and maintained with public tax dollars. If you don’t pay taxes the system will eventually stop working. It doesn’t last forever.

I don’t disagree with the concept entirely, but I don’t think people think these types of ideas through very well. This country’s already been through the frontiersman era, and the people got together to get things done in a cooperative manner (aka, local governments).

GeronL, hippie types already live in tax free situations, working cooperatively. If you don’t know, or haven’t heard, just look it up. Hippie types don’t necessarily want a free ride anymore than anyone else.

I just think you are a bit optimistic with your view of what Detroit would be like as a ‘tax free zone’. You make it sound like a commune with guns.

Furthermore, much of Detroit already is a tax free zone. In Detroit it’s known as the black market.

The first people to move in would be those who want to buy up property and sell them for a profit. People who have a good income would basically see their income double because of the lack of taxation.

Now that is real stimulus.

Residents of the Free Zone would pay a private service to pick up their garbage and pay a subscription fee for private fire service coverage. Private security would flourish but I would have to assume that the County Sheriff’s Department would find local business willing to pay them to have a certain number of deputies stationed there. And of course just about every adult would own a gun.

Residents would actually pay for the water they use, what a concept, so I am sure water providers would be happy to sell it.

There is no particular reason for them to collect any taxes really since the people who would move to such a place would be the most self-reliant and self-sufficient kind. There are no services provided by government that could not be done less expensively by the private sector.

The anti-social types would hate a place like this, they would stand out like sore thumbs. They would find the place an environment where thier types are not put up with.