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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 06 2021, @04:34AM   Printer-friendly
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.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 06 2021, @11:21PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 06 2021, @11:21PM (#1109814)

    So it's fascism -- that special delicious blend of corporate and government power.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday February 07 2021, @03:21PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 07 2021, @03:21PM (#1109948) Journal

    So it's fascism -- that special delicious blend of corporate and government power.

    Only if you define fascism that way. We're missing the usual stuff, like supremacy of the state, that would make it a fascist government.

    Plutocrarchy or corporatocracy seems more appropriate, particularly since these regions would still be subject to laws and regulation by Nevada and the US federal government.