screw that... we'd be better off splitting the state and becoming WEST New York!
Posted on 02/21/2015 8:56:24 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Businesses have been fleeing the Southern Tier of upstate New York for years. Now, fifteen New York towns are looking to do something about the exodus by seceding from New York and joining Pennsylvania, according to WBNG:
“The Upstate New York Towns Association is researching this very topic. The group says a few factors pushing its research are high property taxes, low sales tax revenue and the recent decision to ban hydraulic fracturing in New York.
‘The Southern Tier is desolate,’ said Conklin Town Supervisor Jim Finch (R). ‘We have no jobs and no income. The richest resource we have is in the ground.'”
Businesses started leaving for neighboring Pennsylvania when Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in the process of considering an adverse decision on fracking in New York. Now that he has decided to ban it outright, businesses are increasingly moving their wealth-generating activities elsewhere.
Broome County GOP Chairman Bijoy Datta, who grew up in Windsor (one of the towns considering secession), tells IJReview that it’s easy to see how this anger has built up:
“‘These New York towns are literally a stone’s throw from Pennsylvania and they see the economic results of gas drilling – more jobs, new roads, reduced taxes and higher property values – and it’s just out of their reach because big government said ‘no.’”
Even worse for the area, Cuomo’s decision on fracking was made on the same day the region was passed over for one of the casino licenses the state was giving out. Currently, there are plans to open the bidding for a casino in the Southern Tier again.
Northern NY looks good until you take the trees away and all you got is more Dems looking to destroy the country. No business, no jobs, no nothing. “Let’s go to PA. Less taxes (arguably),better jobs (fallacious)and better government (until we get there).
Having lived in both, I would agree with that assessment.
One such event was when Southern states seceded in 1861. Lincoln’s famous address would have been more accurate if given by a Confederate leader.
screw that... we'd be better off splitting the state and becoming WEST New York!
I visited Upstate NY in October, and could not believe the number of anti Cuomo signs there. It was refreshing, until I realized one square block in Manhattan contained more Cuomo voters than all of the signs that I saw.
Posting from the scenic confines of PAlabama . . .
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love to have em, childhood cousins lived in greene and onienta. spent some great time there as a kid
just like south africa, when it went commie.
What you describe are the Constitutional requirements for forming a new state, and not for joining another state.
I'm sure there's a spare weapon or two floating around Pennsy.
West Virginia split off from Virginia in 1863. Is there a civil war in our future?
prolly better than 50/50
Just the way liberals like it -- it keeps them in their jobs and their (high) income. The more dependency, the more people they're "helping."
Cuomo hates the Southern Tier because it tends to be Republican. So he;s punishing the people there. No fracking, no casinos. Take that!
When someone actually wants to become a Pennsyltuckian you know things are really bad!
The Republican State Senate should attach a pro-fracking amendment to some must-pass, must-sign legislation and see if Baby Andrew vetoes it.
I think that’s the only governorship to flip from Republican to Democrat last year.
Erie County is Dhimmicrap; Monroe County sometimes is. Most of the rest of upstate is GOP through and through.
Michael Savage seems to think so, and he's concerned about it. He titled his most recent book Stop the Coming Civil War.
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