Each of those places (besides Delaware, kinda) has economies larger than a large chunk of the EU.

embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, we've realized that, that's why we keep iterating on the union :)

My point is rather than almost anything can be made smooth if you have enough $$ pointed at making it so. One of the biggest issues with small economies is that they don’t have the capital spent to make it easy to do things yet; which is friction that helps keep them small.

	▲	yencabulator 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This is so ridiculously contrary to a Northern European existence that it's just funny. US is ridiculously more bureaucratic with lots of back office papers shuffled around by humans. US tax filing is hard to even describe to someone who never lived there. Official procedures can be made smooth by valuing them being smooth.