“Which raises the obvious question: Would it be that bad if we added more states?”
No, but America is full of sentimental idiots that think the way the map looks now, and the number of stars were ordained in 1787 (assuming they know what 1787 means).
“New state formations would be disastrously expensive, Cain said, and the areas that want to secede simply don’t have the economic capacity to pay for the level of services they would need as states.”
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Okay. That didnt make any sense. If a new state doesnt have a money sucking large city in it, and they live with a budget, then they can do perfectly fine.
Hawaii certainly doesn’t anything going for it, and it became a state. I still think we made it a state because we felt sorry for what happened at Perl Harbor.
it may be the ONLY answer...even if our present big-gubmint enabling constitution survives at all...
Interesting, the assumptions in this statement...
What "level of services" is ACTUALLY "needed" as a state?
I'd bet anything that that "level of services" was NOT present when the state became a state.