“The POINT of Sov Movement is that TEXANS are TIRED of the mindset that their lives should be determined by what some politician DOES for them. The point is we are tired of being told WHAT to do.”
I spent 7 months in Richmond, VA, which was (obviously) the heard of the Confederacy.
If the CSA had won the war, the poor southerners would’ve been subjected to the most incompetent government ever to talk the face of the earth, who was saddled with massive debts it could not hope to repay.
A couple of decades before that, Texas’ government collapsed under the weight of its own debt, which partially explained its return to the Union in 1865.
What I’m saying is that if you want to seceed from the Union, that it has been done before, and you better’d be ready for economic chaos. Oh, and whether the tyrants come from Austin or DC, there will always be people telling you that you can’t do whatever you wanna do.
Due to the fight with Mexico Texas did incur debt.
That was the point of the payoff. Rather than REWARDING TEXAS for driving the Mexican army out of Texas. As ususal the Federal Government saw a chance to annex even more territory.
http://history-world.org/alamo2.htm
Maybe a little historical perspective will help.
You seem to be under the illusion that TEXAS as a Country would be far worse off without the nanny state federal government.
I DISAGREE.
Part of the reason Texas’ first government collapsed was because at the time Texas had zero industry and was primarily an agricultural country with little other economy.
Today’s Texas economy is radically different - it is diversified, business-and-manufacturing friendly, and contains leading elements of many different industries with more moving in every day.