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Home Front: Politix
Dividing America : New Bill Allows Tech Companies To Create Governments
2021-02-06
Added at 12:50 p.m. ET: The Populist Press piece points to an Associated Press article, which reports:

Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments.

Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state’s economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday.

The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services.

The measure to further economic development with the “alternative form of local government” has not yet been introduced in the Legislature.
Posted by:Ann Arkey5221

#9  NO
Posted by: newc   2021-02-06 22:48  

#8  Extraterritoriality? Like the Europeans enjoyed in China, like that?
Posted by: magpie   2021-02-06 17:57  

#7  Ann Arkey5221, the original AP article on which the Populist Press thing was based states that

The measure to further economic development with the “alternative form of local government” has not yet been introduced in the Legislature.

This pretty much contradicts the PP headline. Please submit the original articles, not the PP clickbait.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-02-06 12:52  

#6  The precedent was already set by CHAZ/CHOP:

A big city neighborhood was subjected to a tyrannical and deadly warlord regime.

The mayor's say-so was sufficient.

The Trump administration didn't intervene then. Biden won't intervene against this proposal either.

You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.

Nuts!
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2021-02-06 11:21  

#5  2077 come to life
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-02-06 10:50  

#4  Bill Gates Largest Land Owner in America The real landowner is the entity that sets the tax rates, whoever or whatever that turns out to be. If Bill doesn't pay his real estate tax, he will lose his real estate.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-02-06 10:43  

#3  Sounds like the old-type Company Towns where the Company owned everything and you never earn enough to get out of debt to the 'company store':

To the song "16 Tons" by Merle Travis:

Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bone
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong

You code 16 Gig and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt!
Saint Peter don't call me cause i can't go!
I owe my soul to the Company Store.

Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-02-06 10:41  

#2  Sovereignty is the supreme authority within a territory. In any state, sovereignty is assigned to the person, body, or institution that has the ultimate authority over other people in order to establish a law or change an existing law.

Feudalism - Bill Gates Largest Land Owner in America establishes his OWN State/Nation !

Rule #1 - Take the JAB -"Itsa Killa™"
Rule #2 - We Don't need no Stinkin Rules, We run dis joint by caprice. All Hale King Bill !
Posted by: Glaving Sneamp2022   2021-02-06 09:27  

#1  Zaibatsu!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-02-06 09:24  

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