California Goes Confederate

VDH Private Papers ^ | February 9, 2017 | Victor Davis Hanson

[gubamyster]

Threatening secession is far from the only thing that the Golden State has in common with the Old South. Over 60 percent of California voters went for Hillary Clinton — a margin of more than 4 million votes over Donald Trump.

Since Clinton’s defeat, the state seems to have become unhinged over Trump’s unexpected election.

“Calexit” supporters brag that they will have enough signatures to qualify for a ballot measure calling for California’s secession from the United States. Some California officials have talked of the state not remitting its legally obligated tax dollars to the federal government. They talk of expanding its sanctuary cities into an entire sanctuary state that would nullify federal immigration law.

Californians also now talk about the value of the old Confederate idea of “states’ rights.” They whine that their state gives far too much revenue to Washington and gets too little back. Residents boast about how their cool culture has little in common with the rest of the U.S. Some Californians claim the state could easily go it alone, divorced from the United States. Sound a bit familiar?

In December 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union in furor over the election of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln did not receive 50 percent of the popular vote. He espoused values the state insisted did not reflect its own. In eerie irony, liberal California is now mirror-imaging the arguments of reactionary South Carolina and other Southern states that vowed to go it alone in 1860 and 1861.

Like California, South Carolina insisted it could nullify federal laws within its state borders. Like California, South Carolina promised to withhold federal revenues.

Like California, South Carolina and other Confederate states bragged that their unique economies did not need the Union.

[5th MEB]

In the V Ring at 500 meters.
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DAMN RIGHT. Semper Fi from 5th MEB.

[Stanwood_Dave]

"Western Washington would probably be happier annexed into the Canadian province of British Columbia."

Western Washington would probably be happier annexed into the Canadian province of British Columbia Bring Cash.

Bring Cash, is what the locals call it. And now that Bring Cash, has decided to TAX homeowners, who don't live in their home year around, and if you own a LARGE HOME, say a 4 (four) bedroom, and their is only say you & your wife, and you don't rent rooms, congratulations Bring Cash is going to tax you for that. This is not a Bernie Sanders story, this is real news.

"City of Vancouver {British Columbia} approves empty homes tax"

Link to story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/city-of-vancouver-approves-empty-homes-tax-1.3853542

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Vancouver city council has voted to approve a tax on empty homes, the first of its kind in Canada.

Self-reporting owners will be assessed a one per cent tax on homes that are not principal residences or aren't rented out for at least six months of the year.

That means a $1-million home left vacant would be taxed $10,000.

The motion passed 8-3, with Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and all Vision Vancouver councillors voting in favour.

You just can't make this stuff up!!!!!