Posted on 07/06/2022 8:44:03 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Wrong.
Texas has $63 billion in total debt and an annual GDP of $2 trillion.
All debt above 10% must have a self-satisfying funding mechanism, per the state constitution, so that tax payers are not on the hook.
Not sure what you’re saying
I don’t think Born and raised someplace 70-80 years ago can give an accurate assessment of what is going on today.
Good - go.
Re: 70 - No, please - we need to do what can be done so Texas leaves.
That way, these incessant, ignorant of law / history and tradition threads will no longer be started.
This vote is about as valid as the various polls which Freepers apply themselves to.
If Texas leaves one would expect they would be taking a share of the national debt run up while they were a part of the US with them. That should be good for around $2 trillion so add that to your liabilities.
Among MANY other questions, yours are the most basic that, first of all, Require answers BEFORE filling any state Republican Party “plank” with hayseed and chicken feathers thinking.
Typically, even an 5 year old contemplates whether there’s water in the pool, before jumping.
The trick is to “think” like a desperate, alleged election-stealing elite Democrat and manufacture a crisis to “justify” repealing 16&17A as fast as Pelosi irresponsibly rammed bill for unconstitutional (imo) Obamacare through the House. /sarc
Ironically, the crisis of unconstitutionally big federal government is very real imo.
Fortunately, the big government crisis created by 16&17A (imo) is probably not too difficult for most qualified citizen voters to get up to speed with. Arguably little or no debate for proposed amendment needed if proposed amendment was strictly limited to repealing those amendments.
I agree as far as 16th amendment, should be an easy sell. I think 17th amendment repeal would be a harder sell to the mind numbed robots. Thinking conservatives would be on board, but everyone else would need a clear explanation of what giving Senate elections back to states would benefit them. The media would frame it as a loss of our “democracy” or something stupid like that.
Getting both repealed would be incredible for regaining our liberty, hence the overlords would fight tooth and nail against it.
Amen
I work in a role that gets to see numbers. Texas is rolling in the cash. Property taxes are through the roof. We are just fine on the financial front... much better than most and vastly better than the feds.
“Property taxes are through the roof”-because of the artificially inflated values caused by Biden’s inflation, which included school taxes/fed-and people have had just about enough-contrary to what a lot of realtors and those in connected industries appear to believe, most of us working class folks are NOT made of money, especially outside major cities-so values are already falling here, with tax adjustments next, just like what happened in the Obamaeconomy.
Secession will undo a lot of that-no more payments to fedzilla to feed all the welfare queens, politicians’ dirty deals, etc-and if there are no more lobbyists, there are fewer deals that enrich the government contractors, etc-let bids be chosen on merit-not on hype from a hired lobbyist. As for school taxes-maybe people would have enough money to pay for tuition if there was no fed dept of education to crack a whip, tax everyone’s property into oblivion to fund useless crap like indoctrination of kids, segregation of kids, etc and call it “education” and make threats to not give the state “federal funds” aka known as OUR money-if we object to the crap.
We would have to make sure no fedzilla could ever be brought to life again-no Jurassic Park fed, ever. Just think how great it would be to not only pay less in taxes, but to actually have a say in where/how it is spent because there are rules for that...
Normalcy bias is...well...normal with Homo Sapiens.
Things are anything but normal these days.
“There is no prohibition in the United States Constitution that forbids any state from exiting the union. The Constitution of the United States actually defines the specific acts States are forbidden from committing in Article 1, Section 10. Nowhere in the remainder of the Constitution is the issue of a State leaving the Union explicitly forbidden, nor is power ceded to the federal government to prohibit one from doing so. In this silence, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution rings loudly.
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Constitution of the United States, Tenth Amendment
This deafening constitutional silence, coupled with the definitive reservation of power by the States, leaves the decision to the people of a State and to those people alone. For this, we have to look to the Texas Constitution. Article 1, Section 1 not only expressly reserves all sovereignty not granted through the United States Constitution, but it also sets the conditions upon which Texas will remain in the union.
Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.
Texas Constitution, Article 1 Section 1
In the very next section of our governing document, the power to determine how Texans govern themselves is clearly declared to reside in the people of Texas alone.
All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their benefit. The faith of the people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient.
Texas Constitution, Article 1 Section 2”
https://tnm.me/texit/can/is-texit-unconstitutional/
Prove it wrong.
Right you are.
Yep, just roll over. It’s always the best policy.
Thank you. Those old-timey myths are hard to overcome. Unfortunately most of the people believing them haven’t done their due diligence, but it doesn’t stop them from believing what isn’t true.
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