Posted on 03/04/2024 3:59:06 PM PST by Rusty0604
In an opinion piece published on Saturday titled, "Texas voters, beware of pro-secession candidates," the Dallas Morning News' editorial board raised concerns over Republican candidates signing the "Take Texas Back" pledge.
"As Super Tuesday approaches, Republican primary voters in Texas should beware. A worrying number of candidates for the Texas House of Representatives and other offices have signed the 'Take Texas Back' pledge that makes them promise to advance legislation to help Texas secede from the United States under certain conditions," the opinion piece read.
The "Take Texas Back" pledge asks candidates to promise that if elected, they will place the interests of Texas before any nation or political entity. By signing the pledge, candidates also promise to advance legislation to call for a referendum for Texans to assert their status as an independent nation, if a majority of residents are interested.
According to the newspaper, over 150 people have signed the pledge so far
The Dallas Morning News' editorial board also warned that the pledge of secession creates "sizable" challenges such as funding, as the "Take Texas Back" pledge does not identify how an independent Texas would run in the absence of federal funding.
"Candidates who sign the pledge also signal that they aren't thinking far ahead about the real-life consequences of their statements. The website for the Take Back Texas pledge does not identify how an independent Texas would be funded in absence of federal money that currently comprises about 30% of our state's budget. The practical challenges to establishing an independent nation are sizable and cannot be patched over with extreme rhetoric," the opinion piece stated.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Tyler Morning Telegraph. A minor major.
Secession is just another source of click bait, IMO. Nobody's going anywhere.
I’m not saying that there won’t be solutions. I’m just saying that the power of the microphone is with the government and they will use it to its full extent.
Thanks for the ping!
Texas has it’s own oil, natural gas, coal, electrical grid, ports, lumber, farmland, fresh water sources, wineries, deserts, caverns, precious minerals, and even it’s own canyon (look up Palo Duro, it’s beautiful!).
We were our own country at one point.
The Dallas Morning News was a liberal rag back in 1970. This little kiddo figured that out back in elementary school. Whatever DMN says, you knew to believe the opposite.
Ah, yes … the Dallas Boring Snooze.
“Just so I understand...a lamestream media ‘journalist’ is trying to tell real Americans how to act?”
It goes much further than that.
The media tells it’s audience what to THINK.
I don’t think you’d ever convince enough people of that to make it stick. But if you amend the Constitution to allow it, then it becomes something that can’t really be argued with.
The website for the Take Back Texas pledge does not identify how an independent Texas would be funded in absence of federal money
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Absence of federal money. Texas pays in 200+ million dollars into Mordor on the Potomac’s coffers than what it gets back.. Texans should visit TNM.me and educate themselves on #TEXIT. Hundreds of answers to questions you may have.
(voted on 3/5/24, yesterday)
Proposition 7 reads:
“The Texas Legislature should establish authority within the Texas State Comptroller’s office to administer access to gold and silver through the Texas Bullion Depository for use as legal tender.”
(voted on 3/5/24, yesterday)
Proposition 7 reads:
“The Texas Legislature should establish authority within the Texas State Comptroller’s office to administer access to gold and silver through the Texas Bullion Depository for use as legal tender.”
https://comptroller.texas.gov/transparency/local/debt/texas.php
Note:
OUTSTANDING GENERAL OBLIGATION DEBT PER CAPITA
This graph shows the outstanding GO debt per capita for the past ten years. In 2020, the GO debt amounted to around $613 per capita.
Right down the street from us.
Nice!
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