Elites engage in commerce by proxy

[allodial]

Perhaps you already are and just don't know it?



Imagine for a moment that each State is an agricultural plantation. Tax revenues are the rents maybe?

Physiocracy is an agrarianist philosophy which may trace its origins to various sources. During the latter period of the Roman Republic, the dominant senatorial class was not allowed to engage in banking or commerce but relied on their latifundia, large plantations, for income. They circumvented this rule through freedmen proxies who sold surplus agricultural goods.

Perhaps each State/Estado of the United States is a "latifundia"? What do they call the buildings were automobiles are made? Plants. Hmm interesting--another kind of 'cash crop'?

plantation - an estate (the Spanish word 'estado' is synonymous with state ) where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)
Synonym: acres, demesne, landed estate, estate, land - extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
Synonym: orangery - a place where oranges are grown; a plantation of orange trees in warm climes or a greenhouse in cooler areas

Plantation - a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America);
Synonym: colony, settlement - a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government; "the American colony in Paris"
North America - a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama

plantation - garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

Possibly relevant: municipal trading; social credit; www.ssa.gov.