Tom McNabb

"Alberta could join EFTA." Not a realistic example when half the reason so many Albertans signed the secession referendum petition is the abusive relationship they had with Trudeau, who is politically allied with globalist Europe. The more boring half of the reason is all about the money, yes?

Of course, neither is what a lot of eager beavers in the U.S. new media suggest: joining the U.S.. Putting aside ever changing political winds, it seems to entirely miss the point of secession. Out of the fry pan.

Now for your rule. A constructive suggestion. Of course: not joining the EFTA. But can you think of an oppositely aligned organization to slot in here?

So if we make cities independent, and they actively go about improving things, what insures that the people that live there benefit and don't have to move down to South Carolina just to find work, while meanwhile, people from all over the country move to that city to take the place of the local workforce, many of whom end up homeless in their, albeit independent and thriving, home town.

An argument then is to be made that you must prevent free movement of people across local boundaries to make this work.

A corollary is that when your local city does all sorts of things to improve the local life, the businesses rather than sourcing locally, source from other cities across the nation, and so on, and local funds flow out, impoverishing the local economy and the very businesses doing this, and return as capital ownership by the, now rather unified (no need to discuss independently billionaires and multinational corporations as the issue anymore) one world economy.

So your cities need not just land value taxes, but tariffs.

"If states remit a percent of their economies to the federal government"..."as the nation pays off its debts."

It seems a significant loss of currency sovereignty for the government not to use its bank-like powers of creating deposits when it spends. The cities currently have no such bank-like access to clearinghouse facilities such as the Federal Reserve or its, very slightly, larger private sector twin, TCH. So essentially, the cities lack currency sovereignty.

Of course you know by now that I have proposals to solve this. Passing currency sovereignty to the cities, that is.