At the airport waiting for a flight to DC. A few concluding observations about the New Hampshire Liberty Forum.
1. The Free State Project is a cool idea. If you’re not tied to a particular state and you don’t need hot weather, why not move to New Hampshire and help the fight for liberty? These folks already have four people in the state legislature, including one elected as a Democrat. At the very least, there’s a good network of friends who value liberty. And as you might expect, lots of interesting characters. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many openly armed folks in my life.
2. Judge Napolitano gives a good speech. I’m not a lawyer, but I like everything he said – especially the story about the Yankees beating the Mets in a pivotal game last year when Castillo dropped A-Rod’s pop fly to second base and turned the final out into the play that let the Yankees win.
3. I despise government more than ever. Not because of the conference, but because I was given a bottle of real maple syrup as my honorarium for speaking. But I wasn’t willing to pay $25 to check my bag, so I went through TSA security hoping rationality would prevail. Not surprisingly, that wasn’t the case.
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@Jason
not really true…many of the Mass transplants are ‘conservative’ the southern towns on the NH borders have some of the best reps in the NH House. NYTimes did a piece on the MA transplants moving into NH.
NH has no income tax.
NH has no sales tax.
Many liberals who found taxes too high in Massachusetts moved to New Hampshire and are turning it into twice the son of hell as Massachusetts.
My understanding, and it may be inaccurate, is that property taxes were either non-existent or very minimal and they were not being used to fund government schools. Transplant liberals came in, sued, and won. Now NH has property taxes to fund government schools.
Long a northeastern Republican holdout, liberal Democrats have managed to get themselves elected to state office and move the state further left.
Hopefully the Free State Project will take the next logical step and start pushing for dissolution of the union.
One lucky TSA employee brought home a nice gift for his wife that night…