Posted on 11/29/2016 7:30:13 AM PST by Kaslin
There’s been a lot of focus about whether California can secede. The better question, perhaps, is, why should it?
Think about it. If you live in California, you already live with silly taxes that you don’t have to live with in other parts of the country, beyond the infamous, highly-progressive state income tax. For instance, do you want to bag your groceries when you check out at the grocery store? In California, you have to either bring your own bags, or declare how many the store provides for you, because you’re charged $0.10 for each one. It’s a state-sponsored sin tax for your wicked destruction of the planet (or the state is saving you and the planet from your own non-biodegradable plastic gluttony, however you wish to frame it). Want to buy a 2-liter container of soda? Well, that will also be another $0.10 tax per unit. Consider it the sin tax for your wanton desire for sugary drinks. Fill the coffers, Californians. The highest, most progressive state income tax and oppressive business taxes are not enough to satiate the California government’s need for your money, collected to absolve you of your sins, but practically applied in the state’s redistributionist endeavors.
And guess what? All of that is absolutely fine in the context of our constitutional republic. You have the right to live in any other state in this country, and you might find all of that to be stupid and ridiculous. I live here in California, and also find it utterly ridiculous. But California’s people chose to enact these aforementioned taxes by recent popular ballot initiatives.
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some day China will build a port in Baja Mexico and put Long beach and LA ports out of business. If I were Mexico, I’d be on that asap. The longshoreman’s union is doing a good job of pricing themselves out of the market. Then Mexican trucks will carry everything that is now shipped into Cal.
Yup. Only limousine liberals can live in CA. Unfortunately, the liberals who can’t afford CA are fleeing to Colorado.
Excellent point.
they leave because their fat pensions can have them live like kings and queens in other states....
I say states should require all their pensioners to stay in Cali and pay property tax and sales tax etc like everyone else...
The Constitution does not prohibit secession.
California would end up selling out to any money giving enemy and would start a new international border war. They would take cash to survive from any anti-american jihad organization and we would have to have tanks and forts along the border. It would be interesting to get their vote of the federal elections too.
I was thinking the same about Baja; maybe Vancouver BC, too.
good deal for Mexico
One of the places I’d like to flee to. At least we aren’t libs.
Already here... in Colorado. Btw Colorado went to Hillary.
They can’t pay.
Eating their share would be a small price to pay to subtract 50+ electoral votes from the rat column and get rid of 2 rat Senators.
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