"Can I ask a serious question question for me anyways. I would love to understand exactly what a Free stater is? Iâm told Free staters want less government and dismantle public education? I feel like both of these things are a wonderful goal absolutely! Yet when someone hears free stater they cringe like itâs a sickness?? Seriously please give serious answers I would love to understand this."
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"The Free State Project is a big tent project to recruit 20,000+ liberty-minded individuals to move to New Hampshire in order to create a model for limited government.
The only requirement is that people agree to this statement of intent:
"I hereby state my solemn intent to live in New Hampshire and exert my fullest practical effort toward the creation of a society in which the maximum role of government is the protection of individual rights to life, liberty, and property. I am a Free Stater."
As a rule, Free Staters want to create a world where all human relations are based on mutual consent.
To realize this world, most Free Staters vote for reducing taxes and lifting regulations.
Of course, many people live off tax-subsidized welfare payments.
Many people have bought the government's story that government bureaucrats work to keep the citizens "safe".
For example, many people believe mandatory vehicle inspections help reduce vehicle injuries and death. They don't believe that state mandated inspections serve primarily to enrich auto mechanics by forcing everyone to buy their services.
Welfare recipients, rentseekers, and their marks tend to be unhappy with Free Staters who want to cut government subsidies / regulations.
In addition, unfortunately, some Free Staters aren't very intellectually consistent, and have promoted government attacks on immigrants, censorship/deportation/death of their political opponents, and expansions of the police/surveillance state. Such actions have angered some people.
Check out Jason Sorens 2001 essay "Free State Project, titled Libertarianism: A Strategy for Liberty" published in the July 23, 2001 edition of the Libertarian Enterprise. This is the essay that launched the movement. (1)