Decentralization and Secession

All else being equal, a physically large country provides regimes with more opportunities to wage more war, collect more taxes, and control more people.

The conservative judges chose to perpetuate the court's well-established and disastrous use of the Equal Protection Clause. The justices were careful to protect and strengthen federal power. 

Ryan and Tho take a look at the growth of the enforcement arm of the Federal Government.

"The first condition for the maximization of economic efficiency is the liberation of civil society with respect to the state. . . . The expansion of capitalism owes its origins and raison d’être to political anarchy."

Once states can extend their monopolies over vast expanses of land and cultural regions, states are more easily able to increase their taxation and regulatory power without danger of losing significant amounts of tax revenue due to migration.

Should political reform be the result of a much-discussed comprehensive plan? Or should it come about through decentralized decision-making that deals with the situations at hand?

The real issue we face is not whether we should be in the red tribe or the blue tribe, but rather what will be the constituency for freedom.

Should political reform be the result of a much-discussed comprehensive plan? Or should it come about through decentralized decision-making that deals with the situations at hand?

The real issue we face is not whether we should be in the red tribe or the blue tribe, but rather what will be the constituency for freedom.

If we have learned anything from hundreds of years of government oppression and atrocities, one thing is certain: government isn't our friend.