Posted on 02/05/2014 4:17:28 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Splitting California into six states would be complicated and time-consuming but not impossible, according to a state analysis.
Tim Draper, the multimillionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist behind the proposal, said he was encouraged by the California legislative analyst’s report, declaring that dividing the nation’s largest state is “clearly legal and doable.”
“It is obvious that we need a breath of fresh air in California government, and creating six new states allows the refresh we need,” Mr. Draper said in an email after the study was made public over the weekend. “California, as it is, is ungovernable. We need our state governments to be local to us.”
The legislative analyst’s report on the proposed Six Californias amendment shows two of the states becoming richer and four becoming poorer. The smallest and poorest would be the northernmost state of Jefferson.
That doesn’t bother Mark Baird, a spokesman for the Jefferson Declaration Committee, who said the short-term economic hit would be far preferable to the state’s slide into a morass of ever-greater debt, taxes and regulation....
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5 sounds good to me.
They'd probably tax me off my land.
Neither party will gain from the plan. The Constitution prohibits creating multiple states out of one or one state out of parts of two or more others without the approval of Congress. That approval will NOT be granted because there are too many small states who will see this plan for what it is—a power grab by that type of person who has cause much of the economic chaos in this nation.
Do NOT Californicate the United States!
DC would probably get its statehood with this “deal”.
Illinois needs to make Cook County its own state and free the rest of the state to thrive normally. It would also save Cook County because we’d have a lower tax state right next to us.
That would depend on how the new states are carved out.
Here's 2012 by county:
I had an Uncle from TX I used to tease about that, I should have known better.
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