My most prolific correspondent, Anonymous, has left a comment:
I've been googling Indian reservation casino food poisoning over the years and have never found a documented case. (Some blog posts complaining of getting sick in very recent year, and Hindu Indian restaurant reports, but not reservation casinos. Probability suggests it will happen, the question then is to compare incidence in "inspected" vs "non-inspected" establishments.
I've been afraid to ever mention this, and I've warned it is a bad idea, given that there would be tremendous official pressure to change that. And given events such as the poisoning of 2 grapes in 1989 causing 400 million in damage went uninvestigated by the FDA, plus the Indians are marked for extermination anyway, it would be nothing some more crimes to be perpetrated against the Indians. No other official crimes against them are prosecuted, why would these?
But the reservations would be ideal "accidental" entities to base the kind of comity within the USA that could compete with Hong Kong. Once such reservation happens to own land at a major port.
Food processing on reservations? USA quality without the taxes and costs of rent-seeking inspection (that don't happen anyway)? I think this is a great idea, producing for export on a reservation and shipped in-bond to a Indian controlled port for export, where no one is allowed to own land. Maybe finally the USA could find away to integrate themselves into the Indian economy.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "What If we Abolished Land Ownership?":
Wyoming officials take EPA to court after ruling gives land to tribes.
"Food processing facilities could be able to operate without regulation."
Hmmm, ... no FDA? They might be on to something here. Maybe someone could start a Hong Kong-type free trade zone in the U.S.?Now this is where my interest in the Indian Reservations come in. The Casinos on reservation are not inspected by country health inspectors. What?! No inspections? How come people are not dropping dead left and right? Well, patrons dropping dead from bad food is not good for business. So the Indians make sure their food is wholesome.
I've been googling Indian reservation casino food poisoning over the years and have never found a documented case. (Some blog posts complaining of getting sick in very recent year, and Hindu Indian restaurant reports, but not reservation casinos. Probability suggests it will happen, the question then is to compare incidence in "inspected" vs "non-inspected" establishments.
I've been afraid to ever mention this, and I've warned it is a bad idea, given that there would be tremendous official pressure to change that. And given events such as the poisoning of 2 grapes in 1989 causing 400 million in damage went uninvestigated by the FDA, plus the Indians are marked for extermination anyway, it would be nothing some more crimes to be perpetrated against the Indians. No other official crimes against them are prosecuted, why would these?
But the reservations would be ideal "accidental" entities to base the kind of comity within the USA that could compete with Hong Kong. Once such reservation happens to own land at a major port.
Food processing on reservations? USA quality without the taxes and costs of rent-seeking inspection (that don't happen anyway)? I think this is a great idea, producing for export on a reservation and shipped in-bond to a Indian controlled port for export, where no one is allowed to own land. Maybe finally the USA could find away to integrate themselves into the Indian economy.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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From the article, the EPA gave an ENTIRE CITY (Riverton, WY) to the tribes.
I'm assuming non-indian, U.S. citizens can still live there (?).
What if one moved their business within the jurisdiction of this land? What could be the implications on how businesses are run? Could this be an entrepreneur's dream? This is so exciting to think about.
I don't think the EPA can give anyone land, but the FEDS apparently are recognizing Indian claims. Here in Seattle area non-Indians have leases, like in Hong Kong, on land. A few decades ago the Feds decommissioned Sand Point Naval Air Station, prime Seattle Real Estate, and the treaty said such decommissioning returns the lands to the Indians. Didn't happen, but it does open possibilities for the future.
Escape from the chaos to anarchy!
If a Hong Kong-type free trade zone is ever established in the U.S., it is probably going to be done by someone recognizing some legal loop-hole(s), rather than some intentional legislation by politicians unfortunately.
"Escape from the chaos to anarchy!"
By anarchy I think you mean "laissez-faire" free markets?
Sounds good in theory, but can it really be achieved using deeply flawed human beings in the real world?:
See:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/110196/hayek-friedman-and-the-illusions-conservative-economics
"But the Good Hayek also knew that unrestricted laissez-faire is unworkable. It has serious defects: successful actors reach for monopoly power, and some of them succeed in grasping it; better-informed actors can exploit the relatively ignorant, creating an inefficiency in the process; the resulting distribution of income may be grossly unequal and widely perceived as intolerably unfair; industrial market economies have been vulnerable to excessively long episodes of unemployment and underutilized capacity, not accidentally but intrinsically; environmental damage is encouraged as a way of reducing private costs—the list is long."
You are describing crony capitalism, not anarchy. Hayek died convinced socialism was our future, and said so. Friedman was a monetarist. Neither considered anarchy, both were State courtesans.
What good we do have is out of anarchy, that is to say, good in spite of the chaos introduced by the State.
Sure, humans are fallen, but the problem is only when they get violence-backed monopoly only possible under the aegis of the State.
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