[Gluteus Maximus]

Let’s do it.

[Gluteus Maximus]

The article states that states like AL and LA get back more money in federal subsidies than they pay in federal taxes. I think that he's missing the point that ( I would think) a good deal of that excess is in the form of welfare and other payments to sub-populations that are overwhelmingly Democratic voters and who would, again I assume, largely choose to self-deport to Blue States than face the inevitable slashing of welfare subsidies that the non-Democrats of AL and LA would almost surely immediately impose on them.

I'm trying to put this nicely.

Anyway, it's a good article but I gotta say I'm not seeing much of a downside of us Red Staters in seceding from the Blue States.

[pierrem15]

He's not counting the per capita bonus of repudiating Federal debt, the drop in electricity prices when power plants don't have to obey insane EPA mandates (ditto for gasoline), no more OSHA regulations, new gas, oil, and mineral exploitation and hydropower as Federally controlled property reverts to state hands.

I know it would be awful, all these states with economies like 1945-1970.

[elkfersupper]

I don't care.

I'm ready.

[tacticalogic]

He neglected to mention that they will also no longer be bearing the cost of complying with federal regulations.

[ThomasSawyer]

The red states shouldn’t succeed. We should just kick the blue states out. They’re the ones that have decided they don’t like the country as founded. If they want Marxism, let them start their own countries.

[foreverfree]

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