And Zug is harsh on homeschooling.
Yup.
Switzerland severely restricts personal firearm ownership. I'm not talking about machine guns here, I'm talking about even hunting rifles. Fuck that shit.
While Switzerland firearm restriction is a lot more than some US states, "severe restriction" is an overstatement in my opinion. Switzerland has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world, and I believe the highest in europe.
The signing of the Schwengen treaty certainly is a bad sign, and gun regulation is likely to get worse.
Other things that are shit about Switzerland :
Mandatory Health Insurance
Compulsory military training (with some bullshit opt out)
Tough immigration
Probably some other shit I don't remember right now. Its by no means perfect, and its by no means much freer than anywhere else in the world. However if you take a broad spectrum approach to liberty Zug is definately a high ranker. There are countries with practically 0 tax, but they will fucking destroy your life over a few grams of cannabis.
If you have one issue that matters to you that much, then it makes sense to go to those places that are extremely free in one respect but not at all free in others.
You can find many places that outstrip Switzerland by a mile in very specific areas. However I don't think theres one area where Switzerland is particularly bad in, and its fairly strong across the board, economically and personally.
For me taxes are a big issue. In America you pay tripple in federal income tax or corporate tax as you would in Switzerland. In NH unless you have a house more expensive than $100,000 you will pay more in state tax than in Zug even if you make over $110,000 a year.
Switzerland also has no capital gains tax whereas in U.S it can be up to 35%.
Switzerland is far away. It is difficult to move there and get a job. It isn't an option for most of us and it is silly to suggest it.
If you own your own business and can afford to employ 1 Swiss employee (bearing in mind theres no minimum wage) you can move to Switzerland pretty much immediately. In an age where starting an online business is trivially easy, its not really a difficult task. Or if you work for a big company that has offices in Switzerland (which many do for tax reasons) then you can ask for a transfer. You can also go down the whole sham marriage route. Certainly immigration is no work in the park, but "isn't an option" is just bunk.
I guess I'm not included in "most of us", because from what I've read its equally difficult to pass US immigration as it is to pass Swiss immigration.
My argument has never been that NH is a bad place for libertarians, if you're moving because NH is freer than where you are, and you want to be around more libertarians, then I think its a good decision, but LIBERTY IN OUR LIFETIMES is grossly unrealistic expectation, and I think its misleading to tell other libertarians to expect it, with nothing more than wishful thinking and a handful of "What ifs?" to back it up.
I think it would be a victory for US libertarians if they even kept NH as free as it is now, and there are certainly freedoms that are not too difficult to achieve at the state level (decrimmed marijuana, possibly even legal prostitution with alot of work), but theres such a thing as setting your hopes too high. Getting thrown in jail for recording in a coutroom lobby and expecting the state to collapse is a massive waste of time.