The Amish epicenter is Lancaster PA. I live two hours west of there and there are Amish in my area who drive horse and buggy. Pennsylvania was first settled by people who were being persecuted in Europe, primarily Germany area, Irish, Scotch. They distrusted centralized government, wanted local control, hence PA has more incorporated small towns than any other state. A few years ago I initiated tax reform legislation that passed with a near unanimous vote (just one abstention). This was to enable shifting taxes off houses and other buildings and onto the land rent via land value taxation, brought forward by Henry George who Leo Tolstoy greatly admired. Tolstoy wrote many letters to the Duma officials and the Tsar urging the to address teh land problem with the land value tax fiscal solution. go to our international movement at theIU.org and read my book The Earth Belongs to Everyone, recipient of the Radical Middle Book Award. FYI I travelled through Russia (USSR) in 1969 to Kiev, Moscow, Leningrad.
The Amish epicenter is Lancaster PA. I live two hours west of there and there are Amish in my area who drive horse and buggy. Pennsylvania was first settled by people who were being persecuted in Europe, primarily Germany area, Irish, Scotch. They distrusted centralized government, wanted local control, hence PA has more incorporated small towns than any other state. A few years ago I initiated tax reform legislation that passed with a near unanimous vote (just one abstention). This was to enable shifting taxes off houses and other buildings and onto the land rent via land value taxation, brought forward by Henry George who Leo Tolstoy greatly admired. Tolstoy wrote many letters to the Duma officials and the Tsar urging the to address teh land problem with the land value tax fiscal solution. go to our international movement at theIU.org and read my book The Earth Belongs to Everyone, recipient of the Radical Middle Book Award. FYI I travelled through Russia (USSR) in 1969 to Kiev, Moscow, Leningrad.