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from the company-towns-and-company-scrip dept.
Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments:
Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments.
Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state's economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday.
The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services.
The measure to further economic development with the "alternative form of local government" has not yet been introduced in the Legislature.
[...] The governor's economic development office did not respond to questions about the zones Wednesday.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 06 2021, @02:27PM
Another past example --Dearborn MI when Henry Ford employed Pinkerton heavies to stop unionization. The Rouge Plant (iron ore & coal went in, Model T cars came out) was about as vertically integrated as could be, and Ford was the law.
First in line for this new deal in Nevada? Musk/Tesla with the Gigafactory making batteries. It's already outside town, makes its own power (solar) and he owns considerable land around the plant.