[Foundation-l] Chapter-selected Board seats - brainstorming

[Milos Rancic]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>  US states have their own laws, their own income and sales taxes, and
>  they each handle incorporation separately.  In fact, a corporation
>  which does business in more than one state has to keep separate
>  accounting for each state and file as a foreign corporation in each
>  state apart from the first.  There are, as Sebastian questioned,
>  significant legal, if not tax, advantages to having a separate
>  organization in each state.

Hm. It is a wrong way for arguing for state-level chapters in USA.
Free State Bavaria is, for example, much more independent entity than
any of US states. And there are a number of similar examples in
Europe.