Calexit Group Says It’s Time for Californians to ‘Take Back Those Tax Dollars’ From the U.S.

Newsweak via Yahoo ^ | 8/01/17 | Harriet Sinclair

[Libloather]

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However, the group and other supporters of Calexit believe such financial risk would be worth it, particularly given that California’s political leanings are so at odds with the current administration and that California sends more tax dollars to the federal government than any other state.

“We feel that California has been neglected and left out of the political process for many, many decades,” Gonzales told the Bee.

“With current politics the way they are, clearly there’s a recognition that many in the United States have disdain for Californians. They call us ‘out of control.’ So this is a time for us to take back those tax dollars and really unleash the potential California has,” he added.

[Libloather]

The initiative would seek to repeal a provision in the California Constitution “stating California is an inseparable part of the United States,” it says, adding that there would be an agreement to establish California as a “fully independent country.”

YES! Cher's wet dream! I don't know anyone who is against this.

[txrefugee]

Will never happen because the Dems can’t lose CA’s 55 electoral votes.

[VanDeKoik]

Take the money. We will keep the water.

[ptsal]

Wonder if the c/exiters have studied any history. By my recollection, this course did not work out too well for some other rebels.

<>By the way, what are the c/exiters going to do without Colorado River Water or disconnection from the western power grid.
<>Their business model will be nighttime in North Korea.       /sarc

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Then they shouldn’t need the Fed dollars being pumped into their sanctuary cities.

[jmaroneps37]

Where do I send my check to help this most worthy cause?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I’m fine with California being an independent country, given the following:
1. Not a penny of foreign aid from the U.S., under any conditions.
2. No refugees from California to be admitted into the U.S. after independence is established.

[Vaquero]

What dollars. You get nothing from us if you leave. We’ll plumb all of the water from lake Powell into southern Arizona and get our winter produce from there.

[MarMema]

please please please GO!!!

[Reno89519]

Okay, US can play ball too. First, restrict all US government from doing business in California—no conferences, no new business. Maybe begin moving out government operations. End federal funding of sanctuary cities, counties, and states, such as California. Bet they change their tune really quick. California would die without the federal government and its tax money, its operations.

[Boomer One]

So California becomes an independent country saddled with debt, unrealistic pension obligations, high energy costs, a failing movie industry, etc. So what happens when they no longer get water from the Colorado River or when Northern California sues for independence?

[Gen.Blather]

Time for the government to close its military bases and installations and inform defense companies they won’t buy products built in California. This will accelerate the capital flight from California.

I wonder if they have thought through the effects of a win. Won’t it be hilarious when they realize they have to throw out the illegals to make their new country viable? Can’t wait to see them implement universal single payer health care. And, eventually, they will build a wall to stop people from leaving. In a decade the place will look like a scene from an apocalyptic movie.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

So what happens when they no longer get water from the Colorado River or when Northern California sues for independence?

We get Northern California back, things get progressively worse in the remaining areas, and we eventually get all of it back, on our terms.

[SandRat]

To Disneyland.

[Excellence]

What about the military bases? Will the military withdraw to Oregon and Washington? Who will pay for all that prime real estate?

[CottonBall]

There must be a wall built at the CA border.

[dhs12345]

Does that include the debt? Especially with CA transitions from a tech center state to a socialist welfare state where no one is working or producing anything — the liberal utopia?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

That too.

[Popman]

-—By the way, what are the c/exiters going to do without Colorado River Water or disconnection from the western power grid.-—

You assume that will happen, but you know won’t

They are a paying customer for both water and power...

They just don’t know the new rates...

A nice 25 % increase sounds about right...

[Claud]

Take the money. We will keep the water.

Oh boy. Haven't quite thought this one through, have they?

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