Posted on 01/11/2005 10:00:38 AM PST by kattracks
(CNSNews.com) - California could cut taxes, fully fund education and balance its budget by seceding from the United States, a newly organized group says.
The Committee to Explore California Secession, also known as Move On California, says it hopes to bring people together to consider the merits of an autonomous and independent California.
Those benefits would be both financial and political: "For every dollar Californians give to the federal government we see only 78-cents come back," the group's website says. It also expresses concern about "the diminishing voice of Californians in national politics" and "national trends that are tipping the balance in the direction of the religious conservative agenda."
[Contrary to what Move On California claims, California Republicans now chair six U.S. House committees, giving California more congressional clout than any other state, Fox News reported.]
Jeff Morrissette, the founder of Move On California, says the secession buzz began shortly after the November 2004 re-election of President Bush. But, he says, politicians from both parties object to subsidizing other states at a time "when those California tax dollars could be better spent at home to shore up our own fiscal problems."
According to Morrissette, if Californians could control the $40 billion that goes to pork barrel spending projects in other states every year, they could give state taxpayers a $20-billion tax cut and still have enough money to fully fund California spending priorities, specifically education, and balance the budget at the same time.
Morrissette says momentum is building for the California secession movement. "While secession may be a long-shot," he says, "it will succeed in bringing awareness to many of the grievances California has politically, socially and fiscally."
"Californians are getting pushed around and it's time we pushed back," he said.
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Yeah right. Leave the USA and become MEXIFORNIA!
HAHA! I only hope that we can build a BIG BIG security fence around that zoo.
ROFLMAO!! Those wacky left coasters are hilarious.
California could only balance its budget by seceding only if relied on US military protection without paying for it.
And then Ahhhnold can be president!
Just cut off the infection from the BLUE counties on the coastline and we will keep the good RED ones...there are lots of good RED counties in California
If California wants to go, the US needs to make one stipulation; they have to take Oregon and Washington, as well.
I'd like to see what kind of Army and Navy they're going to have -- or are they planning on nationalizing the current resources located in their territory?
TS
We get to pillage Kalifornia just like the North pillaged the South in the last secession attempt!
Why give up any territory. Lets make the few blue zones down to the absolute minimum sized liberal/leftist reservations. We can give them security cards and out law self defense "for their own protection" and let them live their non-reproductive lives till they die out.
A little further research is needed but it could very well be that 50 states seceding from Washington, D. C. would save them all considerable money.
Wouldn't even be missed.
Well, it gets most of Hollyweird out of the US, without having to go to Canada..
Just put 'em all on the other side of the fault, drill some injection wells and start pumping...Let 'em have their own island...
Maybe we can pull a reversal of the Castro-Karter trick and dump the leftist vermin ON CASTRO...and toss the scum that he sent here in 79 with them!
If you didn't already know it, these people are out to destroy your country. They are councilling, promoting and facilitating secession from the Union. This is treason, and should be dealt with accordingly. Freedom to express one's opinion (no matter how odious) is one of the foundations of your great nation; however, the line has been more than crossed now. I might be a bit past it, but I'll sign up to fight 'em, if it comes to that. No charge (though I wouldn't be upset to get a permanent resident card out of it:-).
Soros is attacking your country from within and without. He's using his facsist $ to undermine the greatest nation on earth. Something should be done.
Don’t let the whining blue-spot lib-losers get you down. The red areas,
the vast majority of California, like the red areas coast to coast, will
continue to be the cash cow for political pork. California is forced to
be a little more generous that most, thought.
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