Posted on 06/25/2016 10:10:24 AM PDT by lqcincinnatus
After residents of the UK voted today to leave the European Union, the movement for an independent Texas may be gaining serious momentum, with thousands online calling for a “Texit.”
The largest group agitating for secession is the Texas Nationalist Movement, which has been promoting its own version of Brexit, called Texit, over the past several weeks. The group has taken inspiration from the pro-exit campaign in Britain, noting that the two movements share many of the same principles. Daniel Miller, president of the TNM, told Australian website news.com.au, “The vast majority of the laws, rules and regulations that affect the people of Texas are created by the political class or unelected bureaucrats in Washington” — a sentiment which echoes the arguments made by the British Leave campaign.
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That is a false assumption. A large part of an individual’s state economy is its strong ties to the fed jobs in place in the state as well as the free flow of commerce managed by the Feds and the ensuing overhead that lies with the Feds on managing fade agreements, trade treaties, inflow and outflow of fed taxes etc. 12th is when interconnected to the states and Fed....without this the state is far down the ladder as an individual entity
I’m not even a Texan, and I agree, do it Texas, until things get sorta out at the federal level.
The Republic of Texas had been fighting for 10 years to join the Union, ironically enough opposed by Congressman Abe Lincoln.
It surely didn’t occur to them that they would be fighting to leave not long after.
As a proud Texan, what they nesayers never take into account is all of the awesome people who would comintsrily come to the nation of Texas and all of the bottom feeders who would voluntarily leave.
Now look, we have no income taxes and have a qualified workforce. What company would not move here for our business climate and can do attitude? Liberty is hard work and it sounds like many are not up to it.
Cause you are not a nation.
If Texas ever tries secession again I hope the remaining 49 blow it up.
And Britain was not a nation again, until this week.
Don’t get me wrong I love love love Texas;lived in Houston for 3 years working for Arthur Andersen. Loved the food, the people, their independent attitude; all of it!!
If they broke away I’d almost guarantee state taxes would kick in (almost impossible since its require an amendment to its state constitution by a vote of the people). How else do they manage fiscally on a federal level without that already in place for them and not have the capital in which to do it in the form of taxes
It makes you wonder what would happen today, if a state wanted to secede.
Would the president send the armed forces in to force a state to stay in the union, as happened during the Civil War?
Would we really see armed conflict today, over such a movement?
There is no legal provision that I am aware of, for states to leave the union.
If a state voted to secede, I figure that Congress in Washington would have to vote to allow them to leave. Legally speaking anyway.
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If a state voted to secede, and just decided to ignore all federal laws, didn’t pay federal income taxes withheld from employees to the IRS, and other actions, then that would up the ante as far as what the federal government would do to force a state to stay.
Let’s see you try it again and Texas is reconstructed yet again. Lol
Are your really a Cuban? That explains it all!
Yes intelligent Spanish good looking and Catholic
Texas will have no aircraft carriers, no submarines, no Navy, no Air Force, no ICBMs, and no professional standing army.
It will have aced itself out of having any global impact whatsoever.
Not only will it not be able to impact global affairs. It won’t be able to protect itself in the short term.
This talk of Texas leaving the union is so vapid, it lacks any real basis for discussion.
Sure in our mind’s eye we’d like to think of gaining control over our states and become more secure under a Conservative government. Unfortunately, this is a much more complex issue than that.
This fails a children’s level of relative thinking.
If this nation breaks up, the best parts of it leave, guess what happens brain trusts...
We do not continue to be the major force for good globally. You will have tipped the balance of power to the evil among us.
Who would be left in control of our most useful assets, for impacting global dynamics? That’s right, the wicked Left with no input any longer from Texans.
Yes, that’s right, the Left would have an even stronger foot-hold in the U. S., and it could cut Texas off just like it did Cuba. Laugh, but who knows what the remaining Leftists would do.
So Texas, when you talk about leaving the union, please do so sitting down without sharp instruments, preferably in a padded room for your own safety.
I am happy for you. Please pose elsewhere.
What I see in some of these posts, which is why I posted, is that we as a nation have lost the will to fight for and preserve our freedom. We proclaim all types of false assumptions about why we cannot so something and none about how we can do something, individually, to preserve, protect, and defend our lives, our liberty, and our posterity. This is most troubling but it is just the beginning of a re-awakening of the old, sound, good ideals from which we came. God bless you all and never give up what he gave you.
Republic of Texas 2.0
God bless you too but my modelling career is done so.I am over posing
I would like to see Texas, Oklahoma and the states of the Old South secede and form a new nation called the Free States of America.
As a Utah Resident, I would love the Mormons to Morexit...then this State could get down to business!!!
My ancestors came to what is now Texas in the late 1700’s to get still further out of reach of the Spanish government-the same reason they left Spain in the 1st place a century earlier-and this proud card-carrying Tejana would vote “leave” in a heartbeat-so would most of us in rural areas-we work for ourselves and each other and know how to make do with little-hell, we’ve been doing that since the economy went over the edge in 2009...
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