Reply #13: 1) yes 2) no [View All]

[lumberjack_jeff]

1) yes. Kansas can't feed everyone. The united states only produces 10% of the worlds food, and Kansas produces less than 10% of that. Unless you believe that the other 99% of the worlds food is not consumed, it won't work.
2) no. Egalitarianism - "treating everyone equally" - is a good idea. In practice, people innovate and produce because they want a cooler car and a hotter girlfriend than their neighbor. If there is no promise of reward, there's little to no incentive to produce.

The "tear down the borders" concept only works when, as in western europe, the neighboring countries have similar values and economic capacity. The differential between the US and central america is too great - removing the borders assures equality by making the poverty problem as acute north of the border as it is south of the border. And, in fact, it's only sorta working in western europe.