At 12:58 AM 6/17/00 -0400, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:02:34AM -0400, petro uttered:
>
>I think the other options are places that are already Permanent
>Autonomous Zones like Christiantown in Copenhagen. Not sure how many
>other places there are like that...
But the Free Town is mainly free because it's got an agreement with
the surrounding government not to get out of hand.
It's got rules against guns and hard drugs, and if they were seriously
violated I suspect the police would move in and shut the place down.
Its autonomy is mainly limited to minor quality-of-life issues,
like cannabis and housing. I don't know about taxation -
there probably aren't a lot of VAT taxes collected on hash sales,
but that doesn't mean that people who live there don't have to pay
Danish income taxes. (And the local hash just *wasn't* very good :-)
If Christiana were to start a bank, or build a large gambling casino,
or start exporting large quantities of untaxed liquor or hash,
they'd probably also get hit. I don't see a data haven having much more
advantage there than in downtown Copenhagen.
Thanks!
Bill
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