~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT Reply to: ssandfort@attmail.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Punksters, Apparently, T. William Wells does not understood the "Permanent Tourist" concept referenced by Duncan Frissell. Mr. Wells wrote: . . . I could decide to become one of these Permanent Tourists. But where would I go? What will be my concerns? Obviously, money will be one of them. But so also will be climate, people, activities I might not be willing to do without, and on and on. You do not have to leave home to become a PT. For the first time in history, the Net provides a to work anywhere while *appearing* to live anywhere else. William added: Furthermore, other governments are, almost without exception, more repressive than the one I have. For those PTs who do choose to live overseas, this simply isn't true. Foreigners with money to spend are almost always treated better than the local captive audience. Sure, there are some repressive regimes out there, but that needn't affect the PT. Some other material mistakes of fact by William: . . . in the developed world, where most governments are willing to cooperate to some extent in the attempt to collect revenues. No they do not. Most only give lip service to cooperating with one another. If Mr. PT moves to country B to avoid taxes in country A, there is no incentive for country B to cooperate with country A. Why? Because Mr. PT is spending his "ill gotten gains" in country B. Why screw with a good thing? It might be argued that there are PTs from country B who are living in country A to avoid country B's taxes. Therefore it would be in the best interests of both countries to cooperate. The theory sounds great, but that's not what happens. For whatever reason, countries rarely cooperate in this way. William went on: It is a sad fact that governments collectively possess the means to physically regulate all of the desirable real-estate and most are more willing than ours to use physical force to pursue their ends. So Permanent Tourist or not, //one can't really escape them//. [Emphasis added.] It is here, William reveals himself. I used to run into this "you just can't win" syndrome when I was involved in libertarian politics. For every answer, William comes up with another objection. As time goes on, the objections depart further and further from reality and reason. There are ways to own real estate anonymously. Force is rarely used indiscriminately and there are ways to lower your risk. As a practical matter, YES, YOU REALLY CAN ESCAPE THEM. Finally, William worries about world governments focusing on us if we become to good at taking the bread out of their mouths: . . . But what happens when the printing-press equivalents cease to stave off bankruptcy? They go bankrupt, William. S a n d y
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