That would be one way to get a lot of folks to move to your area, secede.(Kansas are are listing?) Just think, no more SS tax, no FDIC tax. Keep those taxes for the state that secedes and also cut welfare.(chase out slackers) That would become one productive state!
I'm sure a volunteer army would also be easy to establish, paid for by those fed taxes no longer going to the welfare country, the USSA. Oh, and no shortage of deer rifles.
The Republic of Texas supposedly put in their treaty when they joined the United States a right to secede. Now, it would be just like the U.S. Supreme Court to turn that entirely on its head - the same way a right to practice religion somehow turned into a right to prohibit religion.
But Texas has open ports, has natural resources - including oil, has their own electricity grid separate from the rest of the U.S. and plenty of land for agriculture and, of course, raising cattle. In other words, Texas could survive quite well as its own nation.
I know some liberal will point out that Texas takes more in federal money than it sends to Washington but I tend to ascribe that to smarter congressmen who know how to bring back the bacon.
When Hurricane Ike hit, you didn’t see Texans act like a bunch of welfare cases waiting around for Uncle Sam to arrive with trailers and debit cards. Most scraped themselves off, fixed their homes and went back to work. But when Katrina hit, Texans took in more Louisianan transplants than any other state and many of them chose to stay.
So, I’m serious. If Texas can make a peaceful secession from the U.S., I’m all for it. I felt that way even before the most recent election. I’m tired of people from Massachussetts, California and New York telling us how we ought to live. It’s bad enough that many of them move down here.
No reason to stay in a bad marriage that is only going to get worse.