MMMmmMmMmmm. Garlic!
Maybe this is a dumb idea, but Hippolito made me think.
Is there some reason why governments have to be monolithic? I mean, look, we all voted with our feet, or plane tickets, or whatever to leave where we were and come here. If we get fed up with this situation we certainly have the option of going elsewhere ... unlike many of the poor souls who are effectively trapped not having the resources to be mobile.
So ... could a country conceivably allow it's citizen's to choose which competing party's laws, taxes, regulations etc. to subscribe to? There are some similiarities extant in the world today. The United States and Canada for example where states create their own laws independent of the Federal government, and even more directly to the point Malaysia where a seperate and equal 'Sharia' law system exists side-by-side with traditional English law for those who are devout Muslims.
Couldn't we have a tick on our cedula that says I am a Leonel citizen so I don't pay that tax I pay this one and I use Leonel Pesos, or I'm a Hippo citizen and I pay with Hippo Pesos (which probably would got for about 10 to each Leonel Peso), etc. Maybe you could switch your "citizenship" every 2 years ot so, but to each group would come their own shadow government.
That way we could do exactly what his Hipponess suggests, and not buy from the high priced government's. I wonder how he'd like THAT.
How's that for a new political strategy, Chris?
Tom