WHY NOT REINSTATE PURE FEUDALISM AND CUT OUT THE MIDDLEMAN?

This is actually happening in Pennsylvania:

What if the state income tax clipped from your paycheck were delivered not to your elected government for roads and other basic services, but to your out-of-state employer, to keep?

A proposal to allow that -- for companies that plan to move to Pennsylvania to hire workers -- is advancing toward Gov. Corbett's signature.

The bill is sponsored by State Rep. Kerry Benninghoff (R., Centre).... [It] is cosponsored by seven Republicans from the Pennsylvania suburbs, among others.

But word on the House floor was that Benninghoff's bill was being drafted with an eye toward landing a specific project, a facility for Georgia's Oracal USA, which makes vinyl shrink-wraps for bus advertising, among other things....

The article makes this seem like just another sweetheart deal -- but to me it points in the direction we may be heading if Our Galtian Overlords have their way. What is this if not vassals handing part of what they earn over to the feudal lord, though with a middleman -- the government -- handling the transaction?

Oh, but it's worse. The lord in this case doesn't agree to defend the realm in which the vassals toil. That's still the job of the government -- to be accomplished, I guess, without any of this tax revenue.

Yeah, I know -- this involves just one company. But in the not-too-distant future, perhaps in the Paul Ryan/Rand Paul administration, maybe this will start to be the standard U.S. form of capitalism.

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UPDATE: David Cay Johnston has more on this -- it's already happening in Illinois. (Hat tip: Ed Crotty in comments, who says bout the legislation, "I wonder if it was written by ALEC." Good question.)