We'd be better off just paying the portion of Fed taxes that covers federal mandates and spend the rest of it as we see fit.
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The US media is all gaslighting all of the time.
Oooh …. worrisome says Newsweak!
Agree with your comment, about DOE, HHS, HUD, etc.
Just so I understand...a lamestream media ‘journalist’ is trying to tell real Americans how to act?
Secession is a pipe dream, but if this leads to voting in politicians who are for more assertion of state’s rights and/or less dependency on federal funds, then that would be a good thing.
“ federal money that currently comprises about 30% of our state’s budget”
Not sure how this works.
Much of it obviously comes from Texas in the first place.
The Dallas Morning News is another leftist cesspool rag IMHO. I know — lived in Dallas for many years. The main reason people read that rag is for news about the Cowboys.
Their print circulation in 2022 was 65,369 (easy to look up). Pretty sure Free Republic has more viewers.
Also, Fox News viewership is somewhere around 3M per day. Oops, that was just for one show: The Five.
mmm, not seeing a down side here.
If the Dallas Morning News' editorial board raised concerns over Republican candidates signing the "Take Texas Back" pledge, then it is quite plain that it is a flashing red beacon to the progs that they are STILL not welcome by most here in Texas.
There will be a variety of karins, progs, race hustlers, perverts, etc. screeching and moaning about how democracy communism is "being threatened" by God fearing, law abiding, hetrosexual familes and they must be stamped out for the good of the satin worshipers.
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THIS is what urbanites in Texas are worried about - Federal money. Federal carrot money to implement leftist actions the federal government is precluded from doing on its own.
How would Texas operate without federal funds? Firstly, all the free loading leftists in the big cities would actually have to go out and work - or move to another state. Win Win...
At this time, secession is more of a metaphor than something practical, since, for starters, in order to have a peaceful secession, we’d have to take our share of the National Debt, which comes out to about $100,000 for every man, woman, and child.
Then, of course, is the fact that the Democrats DO NOT want a ‘Two-State Solution’ where Texas and the US live peacefully side-by-side (similar to the Palestinians not wanting a ‘Two-State Solution’), as they know they cannot justify their tyranny with a free country located right next to them. The Democrats simply want us dead, or, if not immediately practical, for us to be their slaves. So that means we, in Texas, would require outside help, perhaps from Mexico, although I doubt they’re inclined to help.
Ok, now that I’ve explained why we won’t have secession any time soon, that doesn’t mean support for the concept is meaningless. As was pointed out by some genius (but not me, in this case), support for Trump’s Wall was a metaphor, as it meant that whoever was supporting The Wall (and meant it) understood just how bad Illegal Immigration was and was willing to go all out to fix the problem. Similar here - the idea of dividing up the US was out of the question for most of our lifetimes, but then we also didn’t spend years in jail for simply attending a rally and following police instructions.
So the bottom line is that any Republican who tells us to f-off when we talk secession isn’t worth our vote, as they are part of the problem...and they give it away by not even understanding why secession is even being discussed.
Why would the Dallas Morning Snooze be afraid of politicians who promise to listen to their voters?
Thanks for the ping~!
If the election is stolen again, there will be lots of secession talk, and maybe some action.
“...does not identify how an independent Texas would run in the absence of federal funding.”
LOL...very well, thank you. Without all the federal regulations, abandonment of the horrendous “climate” regs, plentiful oil and gas, confiscation of fantastic wealth by DC, and no export restrictions, Texas would be very rich. It would probably be able to pay it’s citizens the way Alaska did when North Slope oil was discovered at Prudhoe Bay.
If Oklahoma and Louisiana would join in, we could get together with OPEC and Russia and get a fair price for oil and gas.
Biden made his own "Take Texas Back" pledge ... with Mexico ...
The Dallas Morning News is nothing but a commie rag.
Late to the party here, but I seem to remember Texas having oil.
Isn’t that similar to some middle eastern countries.
You only need 34 states to approve a constitutional amendment that would enable secession. The GOP controls 25 states. So they need 9 Blue states to sign onto secession. Could happen.