Not quite sure I get the land ownership. You are saying that everyone would lease land from the state? And you wouldn't have sole ownership of land at all?

Look forward to part three, this was very interesting and educational for me. Interesting how pollution is one of the easiest things. Great post! thanks for sharing :) Alla x

I posted a question on the first part, but I don't see a particular answer to it (or perhaps I've misunderstood the answer): given the voluntary nature of employing governmental services, i.e. the state actor has no coercively-enforced advantage in the marketplace, could an individual simply declare their plot of land independent from state control and become a de-facto tier-one land owner, so long as he or she also does not request the benefits that the state actor is able to provide?

Is anyone in South Africa reading this? Some very interesting comments and article. I need to reread everything. But my hunch this is a great evolution, maybe into something different. It would help if the 'government' was decentralized. And what about roads, the use thereof?

One downside of this land lease solution is, that nobody buy a piece of land and then do nothing. He has to work to pay the lease. If he can not pay the lease for the land then the state will expel him from it. This is really awkward about your system. What would be a commodity to keep your wealth save for years? (except SteemPower of course)

I have currently been trying to configure a smart contract for land ownership and decentralized assets within bitshares but haven't yet been successful. Any ideas? With a 20 acre piece of land and blocking it in 1/4 acre lots with privacy policy honoring the understanding of building up and keeping green. :D

Love how your taking a very advanced concept and presenting it in a very plain language way. I thank you a lot, love the concept.

One of the most interesting things I've read in a while... The problem with this model is that it doesn't eliminate corruption. So a powerful corporation will want a piece of the landlease pie, and brag government officials so that they can claim land as their own, making it a tier-one land owner. How could this be avoided? 
I think after a while this will become the norm and we would see the end of the state as we know it, having a bunch of micro-corporate states everywhere. Although this could kinda be a good thing, on one hand, it creates competition, cuz how do you set prices when there is no competition?? That's another question that your system hasn't answered. You say it would be kind of like an auction system, but there's no reference price so...
Also, inflation in this system is inevitable, because you have a fixed amount of land and a growing population that will press on the demands on the system.
Another question, how do you prevent people stacking houses on top of each other like Favelas? I can see buildings growing taller and taller in the areas of lower prices and the higher price land going empty (yes I know this can create an auto-regulating tendency)

I think the idea of voluntary states/taxation will be necessary to bridge the gap between a world of nation states and free anarchy. From the early days of rape and pillage to the charming dispositions of swindlers, taxation has evolved to the point most people doubt it is compulsory.   

Now, I don't particularly like the idea of a tax on all land being called voluntary.  Unless you're a fish or a seasteading billionaire, it'd be identical to the present day minus all the other compulsory taxes.  Besides, ![You ain't no kind of man if you ain't got land.](https://i.imgflip.com/19erwg.jpg)

The underlying premise, that the state rightfully owns the earth, would just be a reset button on state power. This belief in states is entirely cultural. It is William Blake's "mind-forged manacles" and if people don't stop believing this bullshit no amount of political reform is going to be enough. The problem with a free market society coexisting with a government is the government will grow incredibly powerful by feeding off its productive people. The U.S. is perhaps the most historically relevant example of this. Additionally, land and future taxation can be used as collateral for credit. It's a recipe for unconstrained growth. 

I think another means of facilitating this transition is too simply relax government control and allow businesses to step into traditional government roles. E.g FedEx or UPS.  If the service is necessary and needed, people will pay for it willingly. As I see it, nothing major needs to be undone or tore down. Time and consumer choice would make the government service obsolete. Let them fade away. 

Another factor we mustn't overlook when we ponder a free society is the very interface we are conversing through. The internet completely changes what future self-government will look like. We can see glimmers of it nowadays, but who knows what a couple of centuries of this will do to our political systems.

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I'm not sure the proposal really solves the basic problems of modern society.  the state *must* be responsible for protecting the citizen from other citizens, and this is a pernicious activity that requires a privilege utterly susceptible to abuse.  but the state must be responsible because no one else can be.  and to hold such responsibility it must have the power to enforce rules.  but what rules?  who gets to make them? who gets to decide what is right and wrong?  is it illegal to sell drugs? what kinds? is prostitution illegal? if so, is it illegal to coerce someone into prostitution? and what about defining terrorism? is it terrorism to stand up in the middle of a theatre and yell fire?

these are all the quandaries modern states face and none of them are really addressed in the given proposal.  I'm all for federated states where a government serves as a weak glue (which is how the US was designed) between sovereigns and perhaps handles foreign diplomacy, but at the end of the day, local governments still have to perform law enforcement or else gangs do.

thoughts?

Great article! Thanks for the posting, namaste    :)

Great post @falkvinge

[Here is](https://steemit.com/liberty/@fran2k/un-estado-simplificado-sin-impuestos-una-propuesta-parte-2-3) the spanish translation!

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Great post. 

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In this model, if you live in an apartment, will the tenants of the apartment still pay the lease fee based on square foot or will the owner of the apartment complex?

On the one hand individuals owning land is largely illusory today anyway since property taxes are effectively paying a lease to the state despite supposed ownership. On the other hand if the state clearly and plainly owns all land outright and leases it to individuals then the state gets to decide who gets to lease which land. Taking the land someone is living on as is currently called eminent domain would be as simple as not renewing a lease. In order for the state to own all land it'd first have to take all land in the largest eminent domain grab ever. This is entirely at odds with the sole legitimate roles of the government, the protection of life, liberty, and property. In any event implementing such a system would involve a lot of shooting and death at best.

must have stared at that gold vault for like 10 minutes at least now.