Tea Party Fringe Group Develops ‘III Citadel’ An Exclusive Gated Community With Its Own Arms Factory

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19. You're neglecting what they're doing in MI, TX and some other locales.

They are not subject to city taxes. They won't need garbage, police, fire or sewer. I've lived in remote rural areas where water, fire, etc. were not provided by any government entity.

They will be subject to county and state taxes, but those states are run by baggers and hardly pay any property taxes if they are zoned for agricultural use and or get exemptions. Or religious use, as most of them appear to be.

There are a number of enclaves using the different forms of exemption now, and follow no laws whatsoever that most people do. If they are self-sufficient, they won't do any commerce with outsiders.

I've been told this is a problem for small towns where groups like the Mennonites (not sure if those are the ones, been a while since I spoke with people there) have bought up so much farm land there is little left. They don't do business with any of the people in surrounding towns, they get everything they need from their network of families.

It's tribalism, like Afghanistan or Africa, or patronage type living like some areas of Mexico, Central and Latin America. it's who you are related to that makes life work, not civic government as we've come to know it in the USA or western democracies.

The Koch brothers and others are buying up roads, resources and water, lands on which no one can enter. This has been increasing since 2000. They can do it.