Is the Libertarian Migration to New Hampshire Having an Impact?
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- "Libertarians, who I'm afraid will be disappointed in [the] November [presidential election], will look at the Free State Project as a way that they can actually make a difference on a smaller level with more impact," Matt Philips told Reason's Nick Gillespie.
A 15-year-old initiative to get libertarians to move to New Hampshire, the Free State Project reached a milestone in February by collecting its 20,000th pledge to relocate to the Granite State within five years.
Gillespie sat down with Philips, who's president of the Free State Project, at FreedomFest 2016 to discuss how the initiative is progressing.
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People joke about millennials, but I swear every time I hear a REAL Libertarian talk (no matter what subsect they prescribe to) it sounds like my generation. So get ready for a world of free-trade, healthy lifestyles, caring for the land, diplomacy before war, less invasive government, and more personal freedom.
As a voluntaryist brit. I plan to move to New Hampshire and lend my labour to the free state project. Fuck this tyrannical plandemic nation. Im leaving
I'm going to buy all the land around your land and no tresspassing because i have more guns than you
Damn isn't new hampshire absolute shit rn? This didn't age well now did it
@@Josh-fj9hi why is NH garbage now?
@@QuantumParticle probably because it doesn't support their ideas thus they say its trash , just ignore em
they liked their own comment too so even more invalidating their own comment
New Hampshire native reporting. So glad this is happening in my state! Let me know if you need help moving here or finding a job.
I actually am planning to move there for the Free State when I come back to the country in a year. I make most of my money writing online, but I'll need to find some general work to augment it. Could I talk with you about this?
Richard Miller Sure. I'm in industrial automation. Do you have any experience in that field?
+Shawn Pitman Hi Shawn! Seems kind of odd to ask about a job on UA-cam but stranger things have maybe happened? I'm a libertarian and I'm a mechanical engineer, and I think living in a place with other libertarians seems like an interesting thing to do. Do you think there are any opportunities for somebody like me where you work?
Daniel Oliver Of course. Let me see if I can get in touch with you outside of the UA-cam comment section.
That's awesome.
I've lived in New Hampshire and Arizona. I have to say, if New Hampshire was in a better climate, it'd be the state the whole country would be moving to. It's so free there and it kind of feels like a well kept secret. A plus, people are awesome there and also very smart/independent.
Must not have been Hanover
Dude, we have way more than 18 people in the NH Legislature. You know what's wonderful entertainment? Watching the Statist groups go full McCarthy, trying to figure out... "WHICH ONES ARE THE FREE-STATERS?" ha ha ahaaaa
It's a good sign when even we can't keep track of all of them.
"Belief in authority is the most dangerous supersition"
I love libertarians. You can be gay and eco-friendly while still having 30 round magazine. I am/have neither but love the choice to do so.
Yup!
What do you need a 30 round magazine for? Just curious.
@@et34t34fdf it's standardized across almost all rifles to the point 90% of modern firearms are unavailable to those within states that bans them.
Along with the majority of violent crimes being committed by groups of 3-6 assailants, 30 rounds allows you to fight off these armed home invaders just by yourself. It gives you leniency of missing a few shots and with bullets, one round doesn't instantly stop a person trying to kill you.
Then you have the whole 2nd Amendment thing that is supposed to keep civilians equal with overbearing governments, but that's a longer topic.
@@-R.E.D.A.C.T.E.D- Oh, standard rifles have 30 rounds? Well thats fine, i suppose.
I don't know that much about guns tbh, i just think high capacity and my mind goes to assault rifles, and those i really don't think civilians should have.
Pistols and rifles i don't mind though
I love New Hampshire. Can’t wait to move out of Massachusetts
Please don't bring any leftist politics with you.
@@mirzaahmed6589 i think he can be left too
Leave some room in there. I'm gonna need a few years to pack my junk.
We'll be here to welcome you HOME, whenever you finally get here
Did you leave yet?
Did you go?
Tell us about your success or delay
@@Psnym Is it difficult for foreigners to come to New Hampshire? I'm from Spain.
If it were more of a booming hub for game development, I'd consider it. Hell, my dream is to start my own small studio. Maybe I'll do it there.
Do it. The coast is a hub of tech entrepreneurship here.
It is almost impossible to be unemployed in NH. The economy is a-boomin.
Economy is great in NH and it's a great state to start a business in. Your employees will be glad not to pay any state income tax.
@@fakecubed true
I would love to make my way up to NH in the future.
Did you go?
Sounds beautiful. I live in Detroit Michigan with my wife. I was born and raised in NY - all of my family still lives there. I like the proximity to the Adirondacks. It's intimidating to think about moving again. I came to Michigan in 2003, bought a home and put my roots down. My job is my life, and I'm relatively content with my liberties here in Michigan - it's a beautiful state. It's still a free state. But it's also really flat. I wouldn't mind some topography back in my life.
Where you from in NY? What town? Or county if you don’t want to say the town?
i heard new hampshire is beating vermont arizona in freedom and they are beating texas, i may bail out of texas and go to new hampshire, vermont is high in taxes though.
Derek Davis you do know it snows there, right?
also you should know NH is to white now and needs more color
@@gregoryeverson741 Why? Can't there be one all white place in the world?
No matter what U.S. State you live in you are still in the USA which is ranked anywhere from #12- #17 on the list of freeist countries.
Vermont is socialist trash. How else would Bernie Sanders become a Senator?
Why is the NH LP not particularly big? if there are 4.5k libs there, the LPNH should be huge, but I'm not seeing it. If I'm going to move so far away from my family, I'm going to want to see some results up there.
Can I move to newHampshire from the UK
@je&moi-meme * Is it difficult for other europeans to come to New Hampshire?
@je&moi-meme * That's nice. Thanks for the tip.
Probably. Its easier for UK people to get citizenship
@@mr.giraffe7076 You can move in with the intent to stay anytime. The FSP won't restrict you on the basis of your nationality or whether you have citizenship. If you have a good reason, and if you stay for long enough, you can get citizenship.
Seriously considering doing this. Problem is I'm not a US citizen (I'm Australian) so I'm going to have to visit first to make sure it's legit before I embark on the difficult journey of migration
Hows Australia working our for you now? I hope you got out in time to avoid the tyranny and oppression from the Government down under.
@@breedsauce101 unfortunately I'm stuck here. And the lockdowns ate away like 80% of my savings. Good news is that it seems like the worst is over so I should be able to return to work soon and start saving again. I'm definitely leaving Australia and going to the USA or I'm gonna die trying
@@emZee1994 Brother I am so sorry to hear about this.
No bullshit here when I say this, when you are in a position to travel to the USA, contact me and I will do my best to help you get a job {I work with the Labor Union = great pay/benefits/pension}.
I am not talking shit. You contact me and I will do what I can to guide you in the right direction. God Bless you and stay safe, people on the other side of the planet are praying for you and your family.
@@breedsauce101 that's really generous of you. Hopefully I will do that sooner rather than later 🙂
I wonder if Wyoming would have been the better choice ?
One of the least free places in the country....
@@krishivagarwal5189 how is it one of the least free states?
@@eternallogic6394 Massive regulations. Gun rights aren't the only thing, you know.
New Hampshire was ranked as the most free state by the Cato Institute, nice choice!
Would love to be a part of this, someday!
November isn't over yet. Even a 5% of the vote brings the party more national funding to use in 4 years.
We looked at moving to NH a few years ago but found out that property taxes are extremely high. Other taxes can be avoided by reducing your income or changing your spending habits, but property taxes scare me the most, since you have to pay them or lose your home. I figured we actually pay less in taxes overall in Quebec, Canada (tax capitol of the world, so I thought) than we would have in NH and that really nixed it.
Since this is more of a local issue, it seems like it should one of the first and most pressing for the FSP to address. Has any work been done by the FSP towards tax resistance or other pressures against the local governments?
Freaking awesome!
There were knife laws dahahahahaha
This will be very useful to people who learned how to shank people in prison, and to .001 percent of potential rape victims. To everyone else, it will be vastly less useful than the initiative process in ND and AK. Also, NH is still not one of the states that allows Unrestricted CCW. (AK, AR, AZ, WY, VT) Also, property taxation in NH fucking sucks: "based on 2009 data -- the most recent available -- New Hampshire property taxes do rank among the country’s highest."
and the laws regulating bingo are in their sites!
UK just passed some.
+P Mason That's sad I'm sorry :(
Support physical currency/alternative physical currency
Support small business
Be self sufficiant/no debt
No obediance to medical tyranny
Support voluntaryism
Most of all, bitcoin is a scam
as a new hampshirite I reccomend you move to claremont or colebrook, both great cities.
Why can’t he put this in a warmer place.
Are there a lot of free staters in Portsmouth?
Idk
the community is large and diverse. you never feel alone when you live in nh.
Logical Gamer didn't the state just release a white paper bemoaning the fact that it is 97% white? Or are you referring to the, "gay", community?
I've been wondering how they were going. Thanks for the update.
I wish the project well. This has always seemed like a longshot to me. Will people really follow through with their pledge? Time will tell.
As a libertarian who's been following the progress since the beginning, I've given up on the FSP. It's been about a decade since the early movers started moving there, and what do they have to show for it? They abolished a few knife laws? There's tons of activism going on over there, but what has it achieved? For all of the liberty media, all the civil disobedience, all the protests and electing people into office, how has NH actually gotten more libertarian in the past 10 years? What laws have been abolished? It doesn't seem like they've really changed anything. It's embarrassing for the FSP that MA and ME are both about to legalize weed and NH still has a ban...
They also made NH a constitutional carry state. You don't need to have a permit to carry a firearm in NH anymore.
You do realize as a libertarian that your movement is completely symbolic and is totally ineffectual... right?
Redfish Incorporated Tyrannical murderer
I am going to speak as a Canadian to let you know that the method of legalizing a drug matters as this is still legislation by the government. The way and amount it is taxed; The criminal offences still enforced around specifics of the drug; The stifling business regulation around production, distribution, and sale.
In Canada, since legalization (as opposed to decriminalization), the number of retail businesses in many meropolitan areas has actually gone down and the price in the retail market has increased 30%. Many former retail producers weren't made a part of the legal market. As a result, the number of people selling in a manner that could get themselves a long jail sentence has actually grown, meeting the demand of a market for product sold at ever cheaper black market prices; 25% of the legal retail market price.
It is important to measure the outcomes in a bid for freedom and not be giving the government unnecessary control over your lives, in the process.
I left the United States in 2010 and moved to Ecuador because I felt my freedom was taken away and the corruption in the government. I'm now thinking about returning only to New Hampshire.
I fear that the so called "R vs K population genetics" is indeed true, otherwise I'd like to ask:why don't have a libertarian movement in a more tropical weather? Why more pro freedom states have to be so god dam cold! (As New Hampshire)
By design the cold(-ish) weather keeps whiney spineless people out so the real hardcore activists can make a difference.
False. NH was chosen primarily by New Englanders due to its convenience. AK, WY, ND, DE, NE and AZ counties are optimal. All the prior states except DE have viable initiative and constitutional amendment process, so freedom can be funded and organized. As it stands, good luck finding 204 electable libertarians who won't lose their seats.
Brazilian Libertarianism is rising up thanks to Dilma.
I think it's best that guys like you stick to Stefan Molyneux's alt-right crap, Reason has made it clear it doesn't want guys like you,
Po-freedom states are cold??, Scandinavia is libertrarian??, Europe is libertarian??
Cold makes you move around to keep warm. We are a super active state. I hike in the winter. It's beautiful and wonderful and energizing. Perfect place! Try NH in winter. I promise you'll love it.
Sorry, you don't get to claim libertarian, rights, freedoms and so on. Then vote democrat! Which is a contradiction of being free.
Nah man, it's contradictionary and proof recent plays out right in front of your eyes. Those democrats now claim New Hampshire is too white and needs to be flooded with migrants. It will put your forced marxist collectivism right on top of the foodchain.
What are you babbling about?
You can probably add 2 more to the list in a few months ;)
I'd like to start a version of this project within my own continent one day. It'd be awesome to exercise and experiment with libertarian values in a small society.
1:46 RIP Shem Kellogg
If I could line up a job that pays about the same as my current job, I'd do it.
I'm a New Hampshire Libertarian and at least some of the FREE STATE PROJECT people have made us look BAD, they were doing stupid things like running around Keene and giving grief to the parking enforcement people, and smoking weed on courthouse steps, and running around Nude and just stupid shit, and it's given a GREAT IDEA a BAD Name !!
Eyy! Great project.
This movement should extend to other states as well.
I think this is a good effort but what about markets? Cost of living appears to be higher. Is there a vibrant tech industry in New Hampshire with opportunities for software and hardware development? Or perhaps energy?
They built a biomass plant in Berlin a few years ago. Sadly, the entire area is underdeveloped in the tech industry there. That's what keeps me from moving back home.
Prove the concept successful and you'll have more help with round 2 in a state with better weather!
It's not going too well because they don't have a sovereign currency. They can't avoid federal laws, institutions, and taxes. They still have the blight of the federal reserve and government on their shoulders. Actually, the fed's cheap money policies disproportionately hurt freer markets. When cutting spending, you have to go through a very painful correction process. Losing all those inefficient public sector jobs. Losing dependance on ever appreciating, artificially inflated assets like the housing industry. Correcting this rampant misallocation of resources. Don't back down free state!!
I don''t see it happening. The state has been moving further to the left each election cycle. The sad fact is NH is surrounded by very liberal states, and it is only a matter of time before enough liberals move to the state to permittely change it. This happened to the rest of New England. Back before the 1960s New England was one of the most Republican areas of the country but as new generations grew up the political landscape changed. Now the people moving to NH in droves are young professionals who want to leave their cramped Cambridge, Boston or Somerville apartments and find their first home to raise a family. Many cannot afford the expensive housing close to Boston so they look further out of the I-95 and I-495 rings. NH housing is slightly cheaper, though not by much if you want to live near the border. Property taxes are much higher in NH, than Mass since there is no sales tax or income taxes. Still these young professionals are willing to do the 40 min commute to have a nice house and some land. I would not say these people are sympathetic to the Free state or any libertarian movement. Many of them are not even American since there is a huge migration of people from Asia who work for the large tech companies in the Boston area.
Sadly you are right that a lot of people from authoritarian Mass move to NH each year. Many are trying to get away from Mass politics and want to live someplace more free, but enough bring their politics to NH to cause more problems too. The sad fact is that everywhere on Earth is becoming more authoritarian. Do we simply give up? At least the FSP is trying to do something, and they have actually gotten some stuff done. What are you doing?
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Just read the book "A Libertarian Walks in to a Bear" and this surely aged well. Don't let the bears attack you!
So what's happening with this now?
Question is what's the male to female ratio?
49.3% male 50.7 female. Why?
He probably assumed that since it's a Libertarian migration, that it would be primarily male due to females typically aligning themselves with the Democrats.
You guys are like a machine!
...and are the women willing to go down?
Can't say I'm a fan of his endorsing the government monopoly of alcohol sales, because of how much money it makes the government. Seems like the most anti-libertarian position ever.
So cool. Is there a current website to sign up on?
Why won't anyone take libertarians seriously?
Look at the police state that we live in. It's hard to take freedom seriously or to think that anything can be changed when we live in such an unfree world (country).
Plus people want the welfare treats that they get from the government.
As long as our ideas are taken seriously I really don't care if "libertarians" are taken seriously.
Because 90% of them are stoners.
It sounds like you're setting up a punchline.
I think most people would if our system would allow more than 2 parties, I think you'd see the libertarian party steal members of both major parties.
IMO the ancap libertarians and the people going around yelling FORCE THEFT make libertarians sound crazy too. When you go hardcore like that you're going to be taken as seriously as communists. The libertarians who you can take seriously are the ones willing to work with the current system to move it in a libertarian direction. Gary Johnson selling it as the best of both worlds (dem/rep) is the only way people will take them seriously, IMO, especially in this election cycle
Please do the same in a place like Arizona, Oregon, or Hawaii (one can dream). We need more representation on the West Coast.
I'm really interested in this ... but I also REALLY hate the cold. If they move NH down to where maybe Arkansas is, I'd be more eager.
You need to replicate at least as much as the folks that are crossing the border. Every vote counts.
Only reason I havent moved to New Hampshire is that the weather probably sucks.
Update?
Libertarians couldn't bear it 😂🤣
yes, no longer then 3.5 inches, no switchblade nor stiletto .
Bears
Gulags
@@patrickbateman783 dont cry 😢
I will be voting for Gary, but I don't believe any side has a monopoly on good ideas. A little of every political flavor is best. Lets aim for dead center. Sorry if that doesn't get your jollys off.
Libertarians: "Let's move to New Hampshire and make it libertarian."
Libertarian Party: "The importation of millions of Hispanic lefties will not have a negative effect on liberty in America.
Why Liberty ? when FREEDOM is a better concept.
Best of luck, but NH still is far too progressive compared to WY for me to want to move.
I remember the libertarians. An old man and a bag of hash. Now that I think about it better, that bag was full of potatos, and it was empty. Where's a four leaf when you need it?
Hmm would it work for me not being a US citizen? Do I have to get a visa first or a green card or what?
So tempting, but why, WHY did you not do it in the West?? Colorado or Oregon seems a much more obvious choice than ANYWHERE in the Eastern USA.
New Hampshire has a much smaller population and a migration even as small as 20,000 can make a significant impact, unlike CO and OR which have much higher populations (which tends to lean liberally in the big cities).
503c? Count on being audited in the near future.
NH is also the only state in New England that hasn't decriminalized cannabis...pretty major flaw in this "libertarian utopia". As a resident of "taxachusetts", at least I can rest in the knowledge my state will likely "legalize it" this year, while NH still hasn't done anything substantial on recreational marijuana.
Most of the people who've pledged to move to NH within the following 5 years haven't had a chance to yet. Have some patience and see what things are like in a few years.
Also, to my knowledge CT is still a crim state. They also have some of the strictest gun laws in the US, even worse than CA.
It's not libertopia; if it were, we wouldn't need the FSP, now would we?
That said, 10 years ago NOBODY thought NH could have medical MJ, much less decrim or legalization. Many of us worked very hard, lobbying and changing minds in the legislature, one person at a time. We got medical MJ several years ago, and these days derim and even legalization regularly pass the House. Give us a few more years to get a toehold in the Senate, or (please God) a decent Governor, and we'll have legalized marijuana, along with what we already enjoy that will NEVER pass in other states: no income tax, no sales tax, no knifelaws, no adult seat belt laws, open carry, shall-issue concealed carry, same-sex marriage, anti-real-ID, ... seriously, if after 10+ years of work we legalize marijuana and ONLY THEN you want to move here... well, I'll be pretty underwhelmed to have you aboard
It'll be gone soon enough
It's a shame that so many libertarians are only libertarians because they want to smoke legal weed. I'm a libertarian and I really couldn't care less if other people want to smoke weed or not, but I still think it's dumb to do and libertarianism is about so much more.
Get rid of state owned liquor stores..... how the bell are we gonna pay for schools?
A lot of FSP people, and libertarians in general, are pro-homeschooling, so I'm not sure that's much of a concern.
Any particular connection between this so called 'privacy advocate' and his career at doubleclick, a notorious web Dynamic Advertising, Reporting, and Targeting software company eventually purchased by Google? This needs to be explained.
nullify IRS? nullify other fedural laws?
Reintroduce HB 1245 from the 2003 session.
Check out the website www.freestateproject.org, read up, take a visit to New Hampshire (fall foliage is coming up!), and see for yourself what we're doing here. #makeyourmove #nhitslikethistoo
How many times is reason going to ring the "ITS HAPPENING!" alarm?
Until everyone gets the message and moves!
I know, right?
Reason isn't a reasonable option for people who NEED to be told how to live their lives. Have you been around UA-cam?
Wyoming (came in second place) would have been a much better state. (Personally, I could NEVER move east of the Mississippi River. WAY too crowded for me.)
NH is very rural in much of the state. Many towns only have around 10, 000 people or less
NH is super rural. I'm a native. I love all the space. I hate cities. We are NOT NY or MA. Come join me! Please!
Join us
Agree NH is very congested in the urban/suburban southern area on the Mass border( it is part of the Boston metro region) but the further north it is very rural.
The Free West Alliance is picking up for you west coasters.
Philips' commentary here is ENTIRELY about political involvement, how statist this is. If that's what you want to do, have the integrity to call it by its name. There are a lot of nonpolitical people who get excited about this movement like myself, who ended up pretty dissolutioned in seeing more root statism in participants there than in the places we came from. And I came from a predominantly socialist-communist area. It doesn't matter what your goals are, if you are playing their rules and basing individual interactions on state definitions, obligation, demands, etc, then you are becoming increasingly more dependent on the state.
I don't want to leave a whole paragraph here so if you really want to understand what I mean, just watch my review:
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I would move but NH is so cold..
Is it the Free State Project's goal to achieve a stateless, market-based society? Or is it more minarchist?
I imagine that answer is as diverse as all of the people who went up there. It probably averages out to minarchist though.
+Kazriko Redclaw That's what I was thinking. I'm always looking for a place to move to when I'm out of school. I'm considering Switzerland, New Hampshire, and Alaska, as well as any other country or community that embraces Liberty, freedom, and individualism.
10 years ago, most of us were minarchist libertarians. Now... I'd say the majority of us are anarchist. What's wonderful is seeing native NH politicians becoming anarchist. There are several such in the State legislature already...
We have people here who have fled Alaska, and Switzerland isn't a free country anymore. Come visit NH. You won't be disappointed. :)
Joël Valenzuela Thanks. I agree, Switzerland isn't free anymore, but I was going off of the Heritage Foundation's economic ranking. It's not bad, but I believe NH is considerably better from what I've researched. What's the job market like for someone going into Economics or possibly Finance? Is there a lot of businesses in the Free State?
So was his whole liquor law answer more of, "It's such a money maker for the State, that we have a huge uphill battle to try and get rid of it", OR was it, "It's such a huge money maker for the State, and because the monopoly keeps prices low, we don't WANT to get rid of it"? It kind of sounded like he was okay with it because it's cheaper liquor, which, obviously, isn't very Libertarian.
In NH, the liquor states are owned by the state because they didn't want masshole refugees raising the prices. It probably won't last in the long term, but it is one of those things we haven't fixed yet because it isn't a problem at the moment. Even though it is state owned, it is cheaper than the rest of New England. We don't have sales tax here because most of our money comes from stores on the borders with taxachussetts, maine and Vermont. In fact, when dukakis was governor of Massachusetts, he sent state troops into nh to write down mass licence plates in nh liquor stores so he could tax them - but nh state troops were sent in when our governor found out and arrested them.
To me it sounded like they want to get rid of it, but it's not a priority right now.
+Philosopher exactly
I'd take myself and my business there were it not because I'm Swedish. :(
Free State Project, not diverse enough....
Is this a real thing or is it all hype?
Real thousands have moved
Why New Hampshire? Colorado is most the way to libertarian already.
Colorado is mostly a blue Democratic state.
CO is if you're a single-issue weed person only. NH is the freest state.
0:16
get out while you can!
It is clear libertarians understand the impact on/politics of a large group of people of a certain ideology immigrating into a region, right?
Do you accept existential nihilists?
socilst BS
Problem: The political structure of New Hampshire is incredibly unfriendly to numbers relevant to individual freedom. 20/400 is vastly less significant (5%) than the success in Alaska, which was 4/40 in 1978-1982 (10%). But it's worse than that, because it's harder to find, elect, and retain 202 electable libertarians than it is to find, elect, and retain the 30 necessary in AK, DE, NE, and the 60 needed in ND and WY.
Second, NH has no initiative or constitutional amendment. Clueless.
I wish them well, but they chose the state out of convenience, not optimality toward their goal. Thus, a free state 2.0, 3.0, etc. is needed.
The libertarians in the NH house have been doing a good job with the relative few reps (about 20) the reason is because they don't need 200 + libertarian reps. Using one side or the other the libertarians are able to side with Republicans on some issues and Democrats with others, this way they are the ones who decide what laws are passed as long as the Republicans and Democrats don't vote the same ways. NH is unique also with the accessibility of the House reps most you can call up their numbers and you are calling their house or cell. I visited NH on a few occasions and was able to talk directly with reps in the halls of the capitol or even at FSP events.
Finding electable libertarians is not as important as having enough voters to elect them. 20K people have pledged to move there within the 5 years following the trigger date. The state only has 1.3 million people total. 20K voting the same way is enough to make a difference, especially after the country has had 4 years under Hillary or Trump.
Actually in NH the politics is very different from other places. Our legislature is essentially UNPAID, they are volunteers not professional politicians. In many districts it is hard to find enough people willing to run. This is part of why we punch so far above our weight in the State House
Yeah, it's about the voters, not the politicians. There is no FSP party. FSP cannot legally endorse any candidates. By shifting the balance of issues that voters care about in a more libertarian direction, you get more libertarian-minded candidates, more of them get elected, and stuff gets done.
Yeah! Have you met libertarianism? Ineffectual r Us...
get the hell out
A better, more accurate name for “ free staters” is “freeloaders.”
The freest state in the union is Texas. New Hampshire's "Live free or die" is BS.
Then why does NH not have a seatbelt law? That alone is pretty "Live free or die". I've been to Texas, it's pretty good, but NH is the freest state in the union.
@@mmacd316 Not seatbelt law? Well, that's good.
Texas isn’t even close.
LMAO im in TX rn and it is anything but free. It simply just has a abundance of space/ resources. The freest state believe it or not.. is FL at the moment, NH and WY are second. I worry about how many socialist parasites are moving to NH tho.
@@barcidstudios Oregon drug policy has impressed.
No
Too simple of an answer, needs more cancer and hate speech.
zigadox Buzzfeed, blacklivesmatter
You have a better solution?
***** My solution is to look for a better solution, not just say eh we did our best, oh well, hopefully the movement works
I recommend cultivating libertarian values in your local communities: attempting to create "libertarian utopias" will usually not end up well...people will tend to want to accumulate power...even libertarians. Gotta stay decentralized.
Libertarian ideas sound good until you realize you care about other people.
Oh we do! Which is why the Free Staters started one of the largest charities in the state. :)
You say that, but clearly you only care about the people in your sights, not so much about the people in your blind spot which are robbed as a result. You have a certain amount of money to do what you want with. Use that to you heart's content to help others.
George Cataloni WTF does that even mean. How is feeding the hungry on Thanksgiving a bad thing?
Joël Valenzuela I wasn't replying to you, I was replying to the OP. He's implying that the government is the help people need.
Royaleah. Stay the fuck away from NH.
If we free the markets we can finally marry children and fill the sky with delicious coal!
The Snowflake State. Who is going to do the work??? Is free Kool Aid provided.
The average IQ in NH is 34. It used to be 44 before the Free Staters came.
Actually the average IQ of NH Is 104.2, the second highest in the USA.
@@fakecubed Could it have anything to do that it has a higher majority of white people, perhaps?